Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5745 27 Jun 2025, 12:47

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 40:20.326 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:14.903
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 1:34.244
And I update APT using apt 12.237
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.089
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.031
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 11.676
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.162
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.716
And persistence is disabled 0.518
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:4.677
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 13.731
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.559
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.163
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.177
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.410
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.711
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.702
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.149
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
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1:4.441
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 10.814
And the system is very low on memory 3.596
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.914
When I try to create a persistent partition 29.247
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.233
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.556
And I free up some memory 3.328
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.455
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:58.906
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 13.049
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.874
And all tps features are active 2.413
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.674
When I disable the first tps feature 7.435
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.099
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.141
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.113
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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23.803
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 11.208
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.039
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 7.080
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.086
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 4.056
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.277
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 10.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.863
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I disable the first tps feature 7.775
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.007
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.931
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 10.304
And the network is plugged 0.155
And Tor is ready 23.944
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.534
When I write some files expected to persist 1.518
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.658
# 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" 24.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:49.139
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 10.441
And the network is plugged 0.096
And Tor is ready 47.423
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.280
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.813
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:21.324
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.083
And Tor is ready 19.986
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.416
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
Tags: @product
54.105
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 12.128
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.109
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.438
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:30.422
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 11.633
When I enable persistence 37.146
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.609
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 29.686
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.842
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.935
When I cold reboot the computer 7.486
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.101
Given I enable persistence 17.418
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.647
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.166
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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3:47.578
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 10.807
# 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 38.260
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.916
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:5.980
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 37.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:0.022
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 10.319
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.762
Then persistence is disabled 0.284
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.287
And all notifications have disappeared 12.104
When I delete the persistent partition 5.429
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:28.320
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.766
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.840
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.247
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:36.730
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 9.225
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 0.389
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 29.219
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.230
And all notifications have disappeared 8.109
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.379
And all tps features are enabled 2.631
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:11.950
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 2:51.765
And I enable persistence 30.079
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.230
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.246
And persistence is enabled 2.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.201
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 10.150
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.214
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.443
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.115
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.591
When I enable persistence 25.086
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.096
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.882
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 9.282
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.055
When I try to enable persistence 0.448
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 21.872
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.873
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.377
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.888
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.474
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:57.390
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 9.050
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.158
When I try to enable persistence 0.328
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.937
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.357
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.096
When I log in to a new session 44.294
And all notifications have disappeared 11.716
# 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" 0.702
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.949
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.694
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.023
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:56.165
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 8.962
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.705
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.526
When I try to enable persistence 0.574
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.065
When I log in to a new session 49.471
And all notifications have disappeared 8.790
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.053
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000