Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5712 12 Jun 2025, 12:59

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 45:57.078 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:27.549
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:47.139
And I update APT using apt 13.078
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.955
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.026
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 12.797
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.616
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.682
And persistence is disabled 0.540
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:32.637
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 18.749
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.783
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.165
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 32.585
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.997
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.386
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.516
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.371
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:9.711
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 13.228
And the system is very low on memory 3.880
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.644
When I try to create a persistent partition 30.000
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.251
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.450
And I free up some memory 3.216
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.728
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:58.676
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 13.208
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.795
And all tps features are active 3.355
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.202
When I disable the first tps feature 5.878
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.200
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.636
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.914
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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20.186
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 10.634
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.207
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.137
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.115
When I disable the first tps feature 5.639
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 3.178
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.236
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 10.094
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.129
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 5.883
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.968
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.171
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 enabled and logged in 11.042
And the network is plugged 0.083
And Tor is ready 21.184
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.648
When I write some files expected to persist 1.662
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.914
# 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" 24.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:25.217
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 enabled and logged in 23.462
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 19.012
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.202
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.668
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.811
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.113
And Tor is ready 20.094
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.470
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.078
Tags: @product
1:38.345
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 47.185
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.153
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.137
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:52.569
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 22.849
When I enable persistence 1:10.372
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.639
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 36.234
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 53.121
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.637
When I cold reboot the computer 9.430
And the computer reboots Tails 1:12.175
Given I enable persistence 22.192
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.649
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.946
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
4:0.610
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 12.390
# 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 38.475
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.958
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:24.884
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:6.219
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 18.739
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.134
Then persistence is disabled 0.495
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.572
And all notifications have disappeared 7.335
When I delete the persistent partition 7.065
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:37.737
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 10.473
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.750
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.015
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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1:44.682
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 9.596
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.134
When I try to enable persistence 0.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 32.281
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.211
And all notifications have disappeared 8.844
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.751
And all tps features are enabled 2.557
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:53.263
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 4:9.072
And I enable persistence 37.058
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:0.886
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.008
And persistence is enabled 4.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.548
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 12.459
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 29.000
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.338
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 11.915
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.333
When I enable persistence 44.788
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.092
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.863
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 9.979
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.716
When I try to enable persistence 0.444
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 24.340
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.043
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.844
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.727
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.225
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:2.844
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.113
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.106
When I try to enable persistence 0.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 32.221
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.095
When I log in to a new session 45.137
And all notifications have disappeared 10.314
# 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" 0.378
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.703
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.571
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.111
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:2.641
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 9.412
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.333
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.601
When I try to enable persistence 0.456
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 27.218
When I log in to a new session 41.941
And all notifications have disappeared 9.227
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.286
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000