Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5693 02 Jun 2025, 14:26

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 44:49.766 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:27.874
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:44.864
And I update APT using apt 14.309
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.122
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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52.792
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 13.217
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 29.206
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.543
And persistence is disabled 0.454
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:34.879
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 17.765
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.120
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.180
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.295
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.604
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.637
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:28.750
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.432
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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1:4.239
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 15.405
And the system is very low on memory 2.985
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.965
When I try to create a persistent partition 26.131
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.146
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.636
And I free up some memory 2.875
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.585
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:12.162
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 15.449
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.601
And all tps features are active 2.711
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.913
When I disable the first tps feature 6.118
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.573
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.580
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.856
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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22.931
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.412
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 5.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.064
When I enable the first tps feature 5.405
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.293
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 9.720
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
And I disable the first tps feature 5.917
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.262
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.578
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 9.990
And the network is plugged 0.157
And Tor is ready 21.287
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.845
When I write some files expected to persist 1.852
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.078
# 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" 25.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:28.078
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 10.188
And the network is plugged 0.112
And Tor is ready 20.522
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.196
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.468
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.702
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.091
And Tor is ready 20.203
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.317
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.096
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
1:7.220
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 16.433
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.148
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.064
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:32.239
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.754
When I enable persistence 41.045
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.192
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 28.979
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.578
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.584
When I cold reboot the computer 7.810
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.357
Given I enable persistence 20.015
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.562
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.721
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
4:2.208
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 9.901
# 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 37.461
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.725
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:21.869
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 39.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:4.485
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 12.373
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.920
Then persistence is disabled 0.517
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.817
And all notifications have disappeared 7.097
When I delete the persistent partition 7.872
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:40.664
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 9.831
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.679
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.529
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:37.760
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 9.562
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.121
When I try to enable persistence 0.460
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 30.346
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.569
And all notifications have disappeared 8.260
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.927
And all tps features are enabled 3.246
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:15.784
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 5:47.725
And I enable persistence 34.559
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.250
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.864
And persistence is enabled 4.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.875
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 9.286
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.744
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.917
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 9.490
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.713
When I enable persistence 26.446
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.114
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.926
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 9.265
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.237
When I try to enable persistence 0.429
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 24.958
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.999
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.975
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.290
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:59.649
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 9.041
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.146
When I try to enable persistence 0.459
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 26.414
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I log in to a new session 45.567
And all notifications have disappeared 9.237
# 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" 0.472
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.455
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.457
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.021
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:54.202
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 9.034
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.707
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.633
When I try to enable persistence 0.399
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 17.961
When I log in to a new session 43.107
And all notifications have disappeared 9.376
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.989
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000