Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5690 31 May 2025, 12:54

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 42:38.474 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:32.120
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:50.150
And I update APT using apt 12.992
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.348
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.384
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 12.295
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.555
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.765
And persistence is disabled 0.458
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:37.969
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 24.436
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.682
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.457
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.654
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.983
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.842
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:34.028
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.810
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:2.390
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.432
And the system is very low on memory 3.963
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.893
When I try to create a persistent partition 26.667
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.231
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.603
And I free up some memory 3.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.232
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:51.824
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 13.364
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.704
And all tps features are active 2.524
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.784
When I disable the first tps feature 5.739
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.090
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.436
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.840
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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31.368
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 21.411
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.192
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.141
When I disable the first tps feature 5.876
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.086
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 3.335
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.950
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 9.734
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.126
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.210
And I disable the first tps feature 5.906
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.879
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.333
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 9.595
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 21.968
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.554
When I write some files expected to persist 1.633
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.264
# 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" 24.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:11.223
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 9.363
And the network is plugged 0.095
And Tor is ready 20.683
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.235
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.068
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.228
And I capture all network traffic 0.045
And the network is plugged 0.086
And Tor is ready 21.816
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.352
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.067
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1:4.654
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 13.288
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.117
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 26.746
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:20.404
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 14.012
When I enable persistence 36.263
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.517
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.331
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.187
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.717
When I cold reboot the computer 7.389
And the computer reboots Tails 1:0.865
Given I enable persistence 15.218
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.610
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.731
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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3:54.315
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 9.739
# 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 35.968
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.828
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:23.234
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:3.434
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 10.045
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.063
Then persistence is disabled 0.272
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.234
And all notifications have disappeared 9.613
When I delete the persistent partition 6.330
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:32.412
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 9.906
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.857
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.143
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:43.839
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.875
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 0.337
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 30.451
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.291
And all notifications have disappeared 7.386
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.983
And all tps features are enabled 2.506
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:56.798
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:30.619
And I enable persistence 36.903
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.368
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.784
And persistence is enabled 3.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.146
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.683
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.737
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.417
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 9.295
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.650
When I enable persistence 27.614
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.095
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.756
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 9.302
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.332
When I try to enable persistence 0.397
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 26.283
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.742
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.809
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.266
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:57.809
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 8.771
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.113
When I try to enable persistence 1.391
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 26.760
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.481
When I log in to a new session 45.326
And all notifications have disappeared 9.168
# 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" 0.634
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.738
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.437
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.849
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:57.919
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 8.792
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.386
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.503
When I try to enable persistence 0.435
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.302
When I log in to a new session 49.161
And all notifications have disappeared 8.986
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.443
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000