Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5511 12 Mar 2025, 15:06

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 40:43.549 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:14.444
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 1:32.784
And I update APT using apt 13.062
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 25.853
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.163
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 11.625
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.079
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.659
And persistence is disabled 0.300
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:49.651
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 58.728
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.375
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.744
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.564
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.470
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.172
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.399
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:1.012
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 10.987
And the system is very low on memory 4.209
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.896
When I try to create a persistent partition 25.547
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.378
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.626
And I free up some memory 1.867
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.276
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.993
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 17.314
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.501
And all tps features are active 2.356
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.449
When I disable the first tps feature 6.291
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.874
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.167
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:4.995
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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21.102
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 10.564
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 6.963
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.081
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 3.070
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.979
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 10.082
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I disable the first tps feature 6.293
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.348
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.234
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 9.786
And the network is plugged 0.087
And Tor is ready 21.471
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.590
When I write some files expected to persist 1.532
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.351
# 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" 24.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:6.069
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 9.799
And the network is plugged 0.091
And Tor is ready 17.593
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.193
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.028
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.317
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 21.370
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.362
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.097
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
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54.273
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.807
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.111
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.657
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:23.575
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 12.164
When I enable persistence 35.830
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.326
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 24.184
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 51.181
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 2.343
When I cold reboot the computer 7.337
And the computer reboots Tails 59.999
Given I enable persistence 17.475
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.607
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.576
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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3:39.897
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 10.056
# 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 36.504
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.243
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:3.989
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 37.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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53.655
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 9.937
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.935
Then persistence is disabled 0.462
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.140
And all notifications have disappeared 7.052
When I delete the persistent partition 5.722
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:25.739
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 10.250
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.839
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:6.206
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:43.368
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.314
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.096
When I try to enable persistence 0.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 30.626
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.226
And all notifications have disappeared 9.639
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.144
And all tps features are enabled 2.062
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:4.333
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 3:38.275
And I enable persistence 34.098
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.191
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.857
And persistence is enabled 2.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.585
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
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 22.399
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.441
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.804
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 9.306
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.337
When I enable persistence 29.438
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.099
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.492
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 9.326
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.118
When I try to enable persistence 0.424
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 24.756
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.024
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 1.835
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.262
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:51.860
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 8.879
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.095
When I try to enable persistence 0.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.287
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I log in to a new session 43.161
And all notifications have disappeared 8.380
# 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" 0.475
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.320
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.540
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.302
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:55.310
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 9.143
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.430
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.491
When I try to enable persistence 0.471
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.762
When I log in to a new session 51.219
And all notifications have disappeared 7.482
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.397
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000