Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5702 08 Jun 2025, 12:32

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 39:13.927 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.634
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 1:31.598
And I update APT using apt 13.751
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.657
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.875
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 12.348
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.142
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.642
And persistence is disabled 0.311
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:6.537
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 14.951
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.452
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.656
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.572
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.744
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.316
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.628
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:6.284
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 10.844
And the system is very low on memory 6.609
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.711
When I try to create a persistent partition 25.897
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.757
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.605
And I free up some memory 4.485
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.021
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:48.737
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 13.480
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.647
And all tps features are active 2.356
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.607
When I disable the first tps feature 6.416
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.001
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.935
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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33.931
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 24.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.177
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.110
When I disable the first tps feature 5.621
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.085
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 3.165
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.564
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 9.724
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.136
And I disable the first tps feature 5.769
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.686
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.089
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 10.177
And the network is plugged 0.103
And Tor is ready 19.806
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.548
When I write some files expected to persist 1.440
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.544
# 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" 24.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:10.650
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 9.608
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 21.269
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.214
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.054
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.803
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.092
And Tor is ready 20.963
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.338
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.074
Tags: @product
58.923
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 12.844
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.143
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.318
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:18.580
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.408
When I enable persistence 36.405
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.105
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.738
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.280
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.613
When I cold reboot the computer 7.597
And the computer reboots Tails 1:2.240
Given I enable persistence 17.682
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.610
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.456
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
Tags: @product
3:37.494
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 10.102
# 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 33.879
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.134
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:6.736
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
53.924
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 9.631
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.581
Then persistence is disabled 0.371
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.396
And all notifications have disappeared 8.866
When I delete the persistent partition 5.994
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:26.981
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 9.988
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.098
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.458
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.039
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:37.430
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 9.221
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 0.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 29.622
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.634
And all notifications have disappeared 10.368
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.275
And all tps features are enabled 2.826
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:20.164
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:52.105
And I enable persistence 32.047
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.014
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.257
And persistence is enabled 2.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.577
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 8.619
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.058
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.850
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.536
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.641
When I enable persistence 25.827
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.094
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.529
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 9.523
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.993
When I try to enable persistence 0.382
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.078
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.067
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.211
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.610
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.292
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:54.765
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 9.123
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.163
When I try to enable persistence 0.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.279
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I log in to a new session 41.673
And all notifications have disappeared 9.924
# 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" 0.672
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.073
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.387
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.773
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:57.402
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 8.617
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.116
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.721
When I try to enable persistence 0.437
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.858
When I log in to a new session 48.110
And all notifications have disappeared 9.509
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.170
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000