Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5695 03 Jun 2025, 13:19

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 49:48.883 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:33.988
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:50.627
And I update APT using apt 14.307
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.548
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.482
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 31.919
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.167
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.651
And persistence is disabled 0.430
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:0.749
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 41.355
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.761
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.142
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.965
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.440
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.285
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:35.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.201
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:6.964
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 13.297
And the system is very low on memory 4.798
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.113
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.728
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.320
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.765
And I free up some memory 3.543
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.948
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:15.449
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 13.764
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.346
And all tps features are active 4.428
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.702
When I disable the first tps feature 6.198
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.518
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.390
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:28.055
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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22.311
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 11.968
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.130
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.105
When I disable the first tps feature 5.862
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.111
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 3.779
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.659
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 10.624
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.110
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I disable the first tps feature 5.848
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.899
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.439
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 9.308
And the network is plugged 0.169
And Tor is ready 27.745
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.670
When I write some files expected to persist 1.798
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.398
# 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" 26.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:28.103
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.124
And the network is plugged 0.097
And Tor is ready 20.975
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.340
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.039
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.223
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 22.660
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.276
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.125
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
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1:20.302
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 24.214
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.168
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.200
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 32.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:59.554
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 26.801
When I enable persistence 43.291
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.905
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.102
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.461
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.771
When I cold reboot the computer 7.938
And the computer reboots Tails 1:13.124
Given I enable persistence 18.595
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.556
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.695
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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4:10.140
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 10.960
# 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 38.688
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.040
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:22.878
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 44.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
59.378
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 9.798
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.636
Then persistence is disabled 0.688
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.754
And all notifications have disappeared 9.592
When I delete the persistent partition 5.989
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:2.873
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 23.433
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.076
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.008
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.926
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:39.781
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 9.307
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 0.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 32.192
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.742
And all notifications have disappeared 9.650
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.914
And all tps features are enabled 3.148
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
9:29.625
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 7:59.009
And I enable persistence 37.465
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.060
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.626
And persistence is enabled 3.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.054
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 9.462
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.947
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.823
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 9.889
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.889
When I enable persistence 31.244
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.679
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 9.445
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.813
When I try to enable persistence 0.540
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.531
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.068
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.022
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.319
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:6.184
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.552
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 0.371
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 36.669
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.890
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I log in to a new session 33.955
And all notifications have disappeared 8.722
# 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" 1.391
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.743
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.351
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.169
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:10.337
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.585
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.899
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.597
When I try to enable persistence 0.411
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 24.444
When I log in to a new session 51.576
And all notifications have disappeared 8.524
Then the Tor Browser starts 27.605
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000