Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5681 28 May 2025, 13:20

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 157 0 0 0 0 157 21 0 21 42:33.677 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:27.833
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:43.521
And I update APT using apt 13.819
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.321
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 4.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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52.244
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.787
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.567
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.833
And persistence is disabled 0.541
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:32.535
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 16.019
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.645
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.180
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.216
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.460
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.259
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:34.136
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.533
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:6.284
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 10.929
And the system is very low on memory 6.104
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.429
When I try to create a persistent partition 25.703
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.659
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.775
And I free up some memory 4.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.961
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.423
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 16.425
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.495
And all tps features are active 3.830
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.567
When I disable the first tps feature 6.949
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.607
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.213
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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24.317
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.237
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.192
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.086
When I disable the first tps feature 7.156
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.098
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 3.261
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.510
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 14.428
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.682
And I disable the first tps feature 7.531
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.722
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:11.039
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.319
And the network is plugged 0.074
And Tor is ready 21.394
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.630
When I write some files expected to persist 1.494
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.612
# XXX: The next step succeeds (and the --debug output confirms that it's actually looking for the files) but will fail in a subsequent scenario restoring the same snapshot. This exactly what we want, but why does it work? What is guestfs's behaviour when qcow2 internal snapshots are involved?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 24.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.232
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.041
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 22.883
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.226
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.388
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.745
And I capture all network traffic 0.011
And the network is plugged 0.097
And Tor is ready 20.114
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.389
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.075
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1:1.829
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.280
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.162
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.021
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:24.613
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 16.236
When I enable persistence 38.910
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.534
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.070
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.096
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.554
When I cold reboot the computer 7.546
And the computer reboots Tails 1:1.344
Given I enable persistence 16.905
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.467
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.452
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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4:19.645
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.602
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 50.326
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.888
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:24.627
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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53.235
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.418
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.514
Then persistence is disabled 0.188
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.975
And all notifications have disappeared 8.181
When I delete the persistent partition 5.907
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:35.506
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.747
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.465
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.763
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
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1:41.155
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.537
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 0.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 30.289
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.862
And all notifications have disappeared 8.574
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 5.422
And all tps features are enabled 2.757
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:5.662
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 3:41.047
And I enable persistence 30.594
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.592
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.273
And persistence is enabled 3.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.913
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.818
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.177
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.353
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.868
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.140
When I enable persistence 30.561
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.103
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.468
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.994
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.531
When I try to enable persistence 0.445
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 20.431
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.013
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.712
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.577
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.226
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:0.651
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.764
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.118
When I try to enable persistence 0.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 41.285
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.081
When I log in to a new session 40.832
And all notifications have disappeared 8.129
# Now both WhisperBack and Tor Browser has started at the same
# time, so we do not know which window is focused. The steps about
# Tor Browser care about that, but the ones about WhisperBack do
# not, so we first deal with WhisperBack and then kill it to
# ensure that Tor Browser is focused.
Then WhisperBack is prefilled for fsck with summary: "Failed to repair the file system of your Persistent Storage" 0.571
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.147
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.472
Then the Tor Browser starts 15.687
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 2.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:58.219
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.653
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.643
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.531
When I try to enable persistence 1.686
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.191
When I log in to a new session 48.016
And all notifications have disappeared 8.446
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.136
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000