Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5701 07 Jun 2025, 12:49

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 42:0.488 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:58.445
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:12.123
And I update APT using apt 14.860
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 28.507
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.953
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 11.268
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.871
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.418
And persistence is disabled 0.339
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:15.454
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 16.749
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.623
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.174
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.990
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.854
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.085
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.471
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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59.515
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 12.451
And the system is very low on memory 3.699
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.203
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.487
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.169
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.607
And I free up some memory 2.504
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.100
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:11.333
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 14.083
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.482
And all tps features are active 2.603
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.817
When I disable the first tps feature 6.415
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.342
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.148
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.170
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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20.430
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 10.356
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.193
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I disable the first tps feature 6.140
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.132
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.073
When I enable the first tps feature 3.201
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.640
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 9.922
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.131
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I disable the first tps feature 5.740
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.708
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.246
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 9.823
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 49.553
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.703
When I write some files expected to persist 1.492
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.984
# 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" 24.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:12.905
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 9.437
And the network is plugged 0.089
And Tor is ready 20.258
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.876
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.596
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.098
And Tor is ready 20.689
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.380
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.100
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
Tags: @product
59.042
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.101
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.118
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.507
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:36.569
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 13.155
When I enable persistence 38.514
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.710
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 28.316
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.761
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.576
When I cold reboot the computer 7.580
And the computer reboots Tails 1:1.083
Given I enable persistence 17.321
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.589
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.564
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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3:40.075
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 10.357
# 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 35.583
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.796
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:9.864
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 31.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
56.847
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.193
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.691
Then persistence is disabled 0.365
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.172
And all notifications have disappeared 8.997
When I delete the persistent partition 6.548
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:33.322
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 9.816
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.682
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:14.254
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:46.644
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 9.274
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 0.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 29.689
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.763
And all notifications have disappeared 8.231
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.344
And all tps features are enabled 3.148
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:56.613
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 3:33.408
And I enable persistence 31.506
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.862
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.994
And persistence is enabled 2.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.218
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.548
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.965
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.211
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 9.211
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.240
When I enable persistence 29.815
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.104
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.890
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 8.894
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.346
When I try to enable persistence 0.453
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.000
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.070
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.188
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.260
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:52.720
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 9.139
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.096
When I try to enable persistence 0.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.273
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.086
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I log in to a new session 39.222
And all notifications have disappeared 8.109
# 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" 1.204
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.191
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.761
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.253
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:57.406
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 9.464
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.909
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.722
When I try to enable persistence 0.420
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.524
When I log in to a new session 47.683
And all notifications have disappeared 9.687
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.183
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000