Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5711 11 Jun 2025, 20:28

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 39:11.022 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:17.922
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 1:38.295
And I update APT using apt 13.729
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.080
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.171
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 12.543
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.380
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.604
And persistence is disabled 0.382
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:0.491
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 14.908
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.490
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.395
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.527
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.460
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.957
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.521
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:4.976
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 logged in 11.058
And the system is very low on memory 3.404
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.560
When I try to create a persistent partition 26.197
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 1.257
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.772
And I free up some memory 3.638
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.793
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.571
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 12.612
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.724
And all tps features are active 2.716
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.576
When I disable the first tps feature 7.235
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.040
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.155
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.303
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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19.446
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 10.152
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I disable the first tps feature 5.680
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 3.118
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.371
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 9.708
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 5.858
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.604
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.443
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 9.476
And the network is plugged 0.098
And Tor is ready 23.026
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.599
When I write some files expected to persist 1.459
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.800
# 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" 23.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:59.265
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 9.095
And the network is plugged 0.089
And Tor is ready 17.943
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.722
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:3.244
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.081
And Tor is ready 19.359
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.351
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
Tags: @product
59.221
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 12.772
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.192
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.347
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:15.451
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 11.359
When I enable persistence 29.695
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.885
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.132
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.067
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.585
When I cold reboot the computer 7.350
And the computer reboots Tails 1:1.032
Given I enable persistence 17.967
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.533
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.444
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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3:32.940
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 10.018
# 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 32.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.615
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:2.041
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 34.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
59.464
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.781
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.350
Then persistence is disabled 0.314
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.863
And all notifications have disappeared 11.875
When I delete the persistent partition 6.494
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.307
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 9.822
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.990
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:6.057
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:33.206
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 10.229
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 0.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 26.821
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.049
And all notifications have disappeared 6.884
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.518
And all tps features are enabled 2.316
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:41.221
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 3:23.633
And I enable persistence 30.947
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.994
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.135
And persistence is enabled 2.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.075
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 9.073
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.276
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.345
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 9.444
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.524
When I enable persistence 30.616
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.401
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 9.140
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.721
When I try to enable persistence 0.416
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.561
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.631
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.511
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.821
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 5.245
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:51.449
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 9.015
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.111
When I try to enable persistence 0.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.463
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 4.689
When I log in to a new session 37.366
And all notifications have disappeared 10.187
# 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" 0.329
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.677
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.510
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.613
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:48.276
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 8.741
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.097
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.643
When I try to enable persistence 0.401
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.026
When I log in to a new session 47.286
And all notifications have disappeared 7.339
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.412
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 2.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000