Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3835 25 May 2025, 12:56

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 38:27.082 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:11.264
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:32.238
And I update APT using apt 13.012
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.359
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.012
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 11.979
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.780
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.816
And persistence is disabled 0.468
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:0.114
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 12.018
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.630
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.126
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.917
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.793
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.498
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.723
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.339
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:1.494
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.101
And the system is very low on memory 3.005
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.972
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.031
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.824
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.557
And I free up some memory 4.180
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.470
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:46.655
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 11.702
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.901
And all tps features are active 2.372
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.570
When I disable the first tps feature 5.921
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.891
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.494
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.725
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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19.883
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 enabled and logged in 10.343
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 5.924
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 3.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.541
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 9.488
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I disable the first tps feature 6.116
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.677
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.231
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 9.593
And the network is plugged 0.106
And Tor is ready 22.142
And I take note of which tps features are available 1.241
When I write some files expected to persist 1.479
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.768
# 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" 23.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:4.005
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 9.586
And the network is plugged 0.081
And Tor is ready 21.357
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.197
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.771
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:4.360
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 19.025
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.301
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.110
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
57.133
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 14.579
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.219
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.137
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:22.960
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 11.870
When I enable persistence 33.006
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.355
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 26.692
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.604
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.483
When I cold reboot the computer 7.318
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.843
Given I enable persistence 16.833
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.592
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.901
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product
3:51.844
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 enabled and logged in 9.562
# 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 40.537
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.558
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:13.702
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 35.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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56.134
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 9.677
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.643
Then persistence is disabled 0.360
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.042
And all notifications have disappeared 9.996
When I delete the persistent partition 5.629
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:29.866
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 9.532
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.076
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.650
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.155
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:32.618
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 8.450
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 0.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 27.891
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.290
And all notifications have disappeared 7.355
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.337
And all tps features are enabled 3.021
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:8.505
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 2:53.236
And I enable persistence 29.825
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.316
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.752
And persistence is enabled 2.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.815
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 8.153
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.838
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.397
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 9.161
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.417
When I enable persistence 25.238
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.092
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
46.803
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 8.327
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.828
When I try to enable persistence 0.399
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 24.230
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.866
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.236
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.273
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:46.095
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 9.170
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 0.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.157
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I log in to a new session 33.836
And all notifications have disappeared 7.992
# 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" 0.690
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.193
When I close the "whisperback" window 2.204
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.432
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:47.704
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 9.016
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.647
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.515
When I try to enable persistence 0.400
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 17.524
When I log in to a new session 42.875
And all notifications have disappeared 8.731
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.161
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000