Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5708 10 Jun 2025, 19:38

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 40:34.936 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:16.026
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 1:32.851
And I update APT using apt 14.787
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.124
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.922
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 11.873
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.713
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.631
And persistence is disabled 0.339
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:8.776
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 13.579
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.686
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.318
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.868
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.660
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.104
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:22.945
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 25.998
And the system is very low on memory 3.416
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.277
When I try to create a persistent partition 29.550
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.507
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.632
And I free up some memory 4.171
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.939
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.453
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 13.311
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.688
And all tps features are active 2.378
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.883
When I disable the first tps feature 6.182
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.183
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.755
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.011
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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19.912
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 10.567
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.097
When I disable the first tps feature 5.607
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.110
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 3.138
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.752
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 9.949
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.120
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
And I disable the first tps feature 5.788
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.747
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.464
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 9.696
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 23.607
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.561
When I write some files expected to persist 1.557
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.769
# 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" 25.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:59.890
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 11.078
And the network is plugged 0.143
And Tor is ready 18.524
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.215
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.698
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:59.610
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 20.436
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.851
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.100
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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58.261
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 12.436
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.140
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.682
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:23.161
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 13.160
When I enable persistence 34.834
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.049
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.486
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.564
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.443
When I cold reboot the computer 7.816
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.374
Given I enable persistence 16.006
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.544
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.259
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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3:37.247
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 10.116
# 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 33.212
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.884
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:5.442
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
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57.850
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 9.665
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.251
Then persistence is disabled 0.303
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.218
And all notifications have disappeared 10.407
When I delete the persistent partition 6.905
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:36.670
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 9.953
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.928
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.294
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
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1:39.960
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 9.288
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 0.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 28.742
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.915
And all notifications have disappeared 7.614
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.666
And all tps features are enabled 2.292
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:11.383
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 3:51.493
And I enable persistence 29.256
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.404
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.532
And persistence is enabled 2.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.320
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 8.993
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.552
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.299
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 11.905
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.268
When I enable persistence 26.442
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.079
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.262
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 8.779
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.792
When I try to enable persistence 0.585
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.750
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.711
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.696
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.297
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:50.296
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 9.270
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.104
When I try to enable persistence 0.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.431
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I log in to a new session 39.824
And all notifications have disappeared 11.832
# 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" 0.281
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.659
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.633
Then the Tor Browser starts 15.633
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 2.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:55.077
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 9.083
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.257
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.595
When I try to enable persistence 0.434
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.439
When I log in to a new session 47.779
And all notifications have disappeared 7.872
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.735
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000