Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5759 05 Jul 2025, 14:17

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 46:37.148 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:36.934
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 1:52.261
And I update APT using apt 14.296
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.819
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.281
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 12.290
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.927
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.080
And persistence is disabled 0.804
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 20.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:29.548
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 12.617
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.422
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.306
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.453
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.313
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.995
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:35.919
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.427
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:6.123
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 12.612
And the system is very low on memory 3.134
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.715
When I try to create a persistent partition 28.763
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.223
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.655
And I free up some memory 3.385
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.372
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:11.217
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 enabled and logged in 12.535
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.444
And all tps features are active 3.845
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.572
When I disable the first tps feature 6.109
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.222
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.615
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.168
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.072
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23.389
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 12.615
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.142
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.121
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.097
When I disable the first tps feature 6.129
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 3.897
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.142
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.611
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 11.449
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.181
And I disable the first tps feature 6.881
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.943
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.339
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 10.142
And the network is plugged 0.091
And Tor is ready 25.672
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.586
When I write some files expected to persist 1.667
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.244
# 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" 29.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:29.262
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.920
And the network is plugged 0.111
And Tor is ready 19.067
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.203
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.747
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:25.409
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 23.097
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.384
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
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1:1.854
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 12.973
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.217
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.847
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:30.717
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.044
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 29.446
When I enable persistence 43.148
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.628
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 28.646
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 53.527
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.611
When I cold reboot the computer 7.556
And the computer reboots Tails 1:12.415
Given I enable persistence 31.735
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.648
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.132
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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4:25.434
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.491
# 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 46.911
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.164
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:24.573
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 46.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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1:9.358
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 11.361
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 32.681
Then persistence is disabled 0.372
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.041
And all notifications have disappeared 10.184
When I delete the persistent partition 7.676
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:49.210
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 12.317
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.261
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.221
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:26.531
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
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1:54.790
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 10.147
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 0.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 35.763
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.643
And all notifications have disappeared 11.071
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 5.068
And all tps features are enabled 3.223
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:52.561
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:15.426
And I enable persistence 40.112
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.949
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.268
And persistence is enabled 2.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.886
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.156
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.004
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.539
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 12.326
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.205
When I enable persistence 33.836
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.143
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.522
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 9.492
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.393
When I try to enable persistence 0.681
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.156
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.581
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.388
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.733
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.228
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:13.130
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.785
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.145
When I try to enable persistence 0.362
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 35.457
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.086
When I log in to a new session 49.343
And all notifications have disappeared 8.777
# 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" 0.331
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.201
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.484
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.663
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 3.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:12.434
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 10.107
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.245
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.772
When I try to enable persistence 0.473
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 25.173
When I log in to a new session 52.956
And all notifications have disappeared 7.394
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.537
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000