Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5751 30 Jun 2025, 12:52

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 40:10.913 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:13.687
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:33.716
And I update APT using apt 11.824
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.005
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.443
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 11.585
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.289
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.726
And persistence is disabled 0.454
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:11.819
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 12.495
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.140
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.772
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.653
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.163
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.672
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.528
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:21.801
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 24.286
And the system is very low on memory 2.801
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.084
When I try to create a persistent partition 32.587
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.770
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.618
And I free up some memory 2.939
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.377
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:52.289
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 14.502
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.032
And all tps features are active 2.154
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.729
When I disable the first tps feature 6.218
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.243
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.830
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:6.008
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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22.635
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 11.388
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.103
When I disable the first tps feature 6.839
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.098
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.076
When I enable the first tps feature 3.784
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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21.842
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 10.855
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 6.458
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.308
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.143
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 10.715
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 20.421
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.624
When I write some files expected to persist 1.507
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.770
# 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" 25.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:16.966
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 10.862
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 19.426
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.238
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.701
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.613
And I capture all network traffic 0.021
And the network is plugged 0.092
And Tor is ready 19.250
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.473
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.102
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
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1:0.036
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 12.095
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.382
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.991
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:32.166
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 12.224
When I enable persistence 37.202
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.466
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.286
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.891
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.500
When I cold reboot the computer 9.451
And the computer reboots Tails 1:14.465
Given I enable persistence 14.490
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.604
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.198
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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3:45.008
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 11.326
# 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 35.693
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.877
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:10.580
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 32.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
53.878
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 9.448
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.163
Then persistence is disabled 0.358
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.985
And all notifications have disappeared 8.946
When I delete the persistent partition 6.093
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:31.557
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 11.625
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.171
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.236
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:41.127
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 9.123
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.097
When I try to enable persistence 0.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 28.595
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.331
And all notifications have disappeared 9.307
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.306
And all tps features are enabled 2.176
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:17.336
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:53.231
And I enable persistence 29.702
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.661
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.872
And persistence is enabled 2.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.409
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 9.142
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.467
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.506
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 9.184
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.969
When I enable persistence 29.742
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.077
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.705
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 8.858
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.123
When I try to enable persistence 0.375
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.403
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.659
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.206
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.352
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.309
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:56.324
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 9.235
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.106
When I try to enable persistence 0.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.406
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I log in to a new session 43.390
And all notifications have disappeared 6.915
# 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" 0.441
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.217
When I close the "whisperback" window 2.358
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.643
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:58.225
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 9.153
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.226
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.506
When I try to enable persistence 0.383
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.954
When I log in to a new session 51.002
And all notifications have disappeared 7.745
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.276
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000