Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_web-release-6.15.1 4 20 May 2025, 21:32

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 46:41.107 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:53.370
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 2:9.904
And I update APT using apt 13.249
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 27.005
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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56.557
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 11.968
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.445
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.574
And persistence is disabled 0.288
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 19.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:37.341
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 16.643
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.815
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.208
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 35.294
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.241
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.989
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:25.676
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.361
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:3.786
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 10.680
And the system is very low on memory 3.217
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.158
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.864
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.420
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.650
And I free up some memory 3.384
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.046
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.664
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 15.846
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.005
And all tps features are active 2.527
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.852
When I disable the first tps feature 7.310
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.197
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.297
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:14.571
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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25.077
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 14.517
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.176
When I disable the first tps feature 6.445
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.082
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 3.462
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.736
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 10.330
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.151
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 6.343
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.744
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:12.271
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 10.802
And the network is plugged 0.636
And Tor is ready 23.622
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.702
When I write some files expected to persist 2.630
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.159
# 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" 24.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:51.572
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 10.408
And the network is plugged 0.109
And Tor is ready 22.230
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.242
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.098
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:45.166
And I capture all network traffic 0.027
And the network is plugged 0.104
And Tor is ready 21.569
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.397
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.078
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1:37.544
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 43.240
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.137
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 26.364
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:32.714
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 23.949
When I enable persistence 1:1.431
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.930
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 32.992
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 57.222
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.678
When I cold reboot the computer 8.435
And the computer reboots Tails 1:9.807
Given I enable persistence 20.900
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.731
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.329
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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4:13.362
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 10.469
# 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 39.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.610
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:27.828
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 43.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
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1:0.222
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 12.545
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.382
Then persistence is disabled 0.341
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.871
And all notifications have disappeared 9.697
When I delete the persistent partition 6.577
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:41.944
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 14.519
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.107
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.079
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.806
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:46.297
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 9.095
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.096
When I try to enable persistence 0.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 29.669
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.334
And all notifications have disappeared 6.791
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.756
And all tps features are enabled 2.902
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:15.885
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 4:51.621
And I enable persistence 30.431
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.117
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.084
And persistence is enabled 2.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.145
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 9.994
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.396
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.807
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 9.466
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.415
When I enable persistence 28.837
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.110
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.545
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 9.093
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.603
When I try to enable persistence 1.472
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.744
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.611
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.246
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.780
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.425
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:56.365
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 9.473
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.099
When I try to enable persistence 0.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.538
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I log in to a new session 42.388
And all notifications have disappeared 10.354
# 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" 0.419
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.751
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.450
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.418
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:58.892
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 8.703
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.469
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.507
When I try to enable persistence 1.542
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.501
When I log in to a new session 46.898
And all notifications have disappeared 9.230
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.268
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000