Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5729 22 Jun 2025, 13:34

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 47:2.877 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:31.967
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:47.494
And I update APT using apt 15.920
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.320
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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58.344
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.314
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 30.455
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.626
And persistence is disabled 0.432
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:41.405
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 13.751
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.366
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.024
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.031
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.706
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:46.683
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.656
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
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1:3.778
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 12.560
And the system is very low on memory 3.673
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.528
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.738
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.314
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.660
And I free up some memory 2.564
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.443
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:31.103
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 35.426
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.840
And all tps features are active 3.499
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.046
When I disable the first tps feature 5.727
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.238
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.448
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:26.583
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
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21.296
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.860
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 5.973
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 3.932
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.720
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 10.280
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.163
And I disable the first tps feature 5.773
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.367
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.397
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 9.866
And the network is plugged 0.086
And Tor is ready 21.818
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.624
When I write some files expected to persist 2.973
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.931
# 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" 30.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:31.208
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 10.073
And the network is plugged 0.099
And Tor is ready 49.541
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.251
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.091
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:31.653
And I capture all network traffic 0.030
And the network is plugged 0.105
And Tor is ready 49.581
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.478
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.149
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
1:7.291
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 13.802
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.105
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.085
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 29.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:58.440
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.170
When I enable persistence 40.223
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.868
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 32.798
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 51.706
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.208
When I cold reboot the computer 10.612
And the computer reboots Tails 1:15.363
Given I enable persistence 21.937
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.570
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.575
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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4:24.534
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 10.321
# 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 44.558
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.059
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:38.279
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:12.500
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 12.207
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.201
Then persistence is disabled 0.347
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.434
And all notifications have disappeared 13.964
When I delete the persistent partition 8.171
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.244
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 9.297
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.738
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:28.651
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:53.237
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 9.500
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 0.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 37.417
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.436
And all notifications have disappeared 11.883
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.701
And all tps features are enabled 2.456
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:35.948
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 3:57.441
And I enable persistence 41.390
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.758
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.821
And persistence is enabled 2.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.892
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 10.612
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.520
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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53.484
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 11.015
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.761
When I enable persistence 33.047
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.087
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.696
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 9.381
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.237
When I try to enable persistence 1.702
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.231
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.803
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.637
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.542
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.378
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:6.952
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.118
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.109
When I try to enable persistence 0.311
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 41.268
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.299
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I log in to a new session 34.989
And all notifications have disappeared 8.416
# 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" 1.617
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.270
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.771
Then the Tor Browser starts 25.770
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:9.430
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 11.840
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.030
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.537
When I try to enable persistence 0.405
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 24.094
When I log in to a new session 50.719
And all notifications have disappeared 8.595
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.381
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000