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test_Tails_ISO_stable 5683 28 May 2025, 16:48

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 42:26.782 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.920
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 1:33.771
And I update APT using apt 13.367
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.045
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.707
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.817
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.072
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.638
And persistence is disabled 0.287
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:8.870
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 11.963
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.471
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.129
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.164
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.338
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.407
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:16.423
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.901
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:17.376
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 24.400
And the system is very low on memory 4.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.084
When I try to create a persistent partition 28.079
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.354
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.683
And I free up some memory 3.245
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.191
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.068
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 13.907
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.367
And all tps features are active 2.335
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.460
When I disable the first tps feature 6.620
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.612
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.331
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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22.065
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 11.373
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I disable the first tps feature 6.556
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 3.611
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.037
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 10.858
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.277
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I disable the first tps feature 6.626
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.906
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.267
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 10.803
And the network is plugged 0.095
And Tor is ready 50.773
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.705
When I write some files expected to persist 1.464
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.512
# 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" 23.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:8.404
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 10.405
And the network is plugged 0.091
And Tor is ready 20.334
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.492
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.024
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.139
And Tor is ready 21.222
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.325
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
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1:3.246
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 12.841
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.199
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.328
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:28.476
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 14.158
When I enable persistence 44.604
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.231
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 24.983
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.314
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.262
When I cold reboot the computer 7.472
And the computer reboots Tails 1:1.789
Given I enable persistence 18.839
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.534
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 35.953
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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3:41.252
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 10.964
# 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 33.036
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.525
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:14.082
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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54.162
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 9.205
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.601
Then persistence is disabled 0.801
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.785
And all notifications have disappeared 7.585
When I delete the persistent partition 6.166
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.080
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 11.019
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.609
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.047
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:6.985
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:33.371
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 9.501
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 0.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 29.497
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.808
And all notifications have disappeared 7.534
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.926
And all tps features are enabled 2.648
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:18.813
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:58.769
And I enable persistence 30.161
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.076
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.170
And persistence is enabled 2.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.421
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.578
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.886
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.241
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 9.425
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.374
When I enable persistence 27.650
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.103
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.246
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 9.211
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.322
When I try to enable persistence 0.475
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 24.921
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.561
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.825
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.335
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:51.736
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 8.806
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.110
When I try to enable persistence 0.558
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.648
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I log in to a new session 38.137
And all notifications have disappeared 9.411
# 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" 0.337
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.192
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.445
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.879
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:4.016
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 10.178
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.404
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.573
When I try to enable persistence 0.540
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 26.609
When I log in to a new session 46.294
And all notifications have disappeared 8.142
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.403
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000