Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5691 01 Jun 2025, 12:25

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 37:41.033 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:9.840
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 1:30.863
And I update APT using apt 12.584
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.290
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.971
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 10.940
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.957
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.808
And persistence is disabled 0.449
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:57.140
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 12.205
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.357
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.807
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.922
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.581
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.755
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.296
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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58.739
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 10.281
And the system is very low on memory 3.372
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.749
When I try to create a persistent partition 25.016
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.149
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.667
And I free up some memory 3.131
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.018
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:44.535
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 12.018
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.740
And all tps features are active 2.348
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.409
When I disable the first tps feature 5.323
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.959
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.789
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:4.992
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
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19.553
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 9.899
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.326
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.102
When I disable the first tps feature 5.590
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.079
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 3.262
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.737
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 9.883
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.358
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I disable the first tps feature 5.720
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.620
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.143
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 9.675
And the network is plugged 0.091
And Tor is ready 20.780
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.515
When I write some files expected to persist 1.422
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.515
# 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" 24.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:4.058
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 9.578
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 20.228
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.177
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.505
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.714
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 17.237
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.272
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
Tags: @product
51.975
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 10.860
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.099
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.989
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:13.896
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 11.659
When I enable persistence 30.398
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.901
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.001
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 51.110
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.384
When I cold reboot the computer 7.346
And the computer reboots Tails 1:0.671
Given I enable persistence 16.000
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.512
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 36.414
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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3:45.716
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 10.180
# 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 37.818
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.914
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:1.655
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 39.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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56.183
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 9.885
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.240
Then persistence is disabled 0.303
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.755
And all notifications have disappeared 9.587
When I delete the persistent partition 6.652
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:25.427
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 10.271
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.820
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:3.740
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:31.097
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 8.902
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 0.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 24.991
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.480
And all notifications have disappeared 7.548
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.656
And all tps features are enabled 2.220
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:6.797
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 2:50.572
And I enable persistence 27.567
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.963
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.246
And persistence is enabled 2.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.806
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.452
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.627
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.249
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 8.934
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.931
When I enable persistence 23.836
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.090
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.091
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 9.136
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.459
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 21.382
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.008
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.150
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.006
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.217
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:41.728
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 8.663
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.123
When I try to enable persistence 0.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.685
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.097
When I log in to a new session 33.131
And all notifications have disappeared 8.600
# 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" 0.506
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.155
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.718
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.622
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:52.341
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 8.963
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.905
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.487
When I try to enable persistence 1.461
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 16.707
When I log in to a new session 48.413
And all notifications have disappeared 7.606
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.998
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000