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test_Tails_ISO_devel 3856 06 Jun 2025, 13:19

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 39:45.017 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:17.822
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:36.621
And I update APT using apt 12.859
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.067
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.260
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 11.926
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.946
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.639
And persistence is disabled 0.584
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:4.737
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 11.921
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.425
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.106
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.783
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.883
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.008
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.358
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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58.325
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 11.484
And the system is very low on memory 4.376
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.183
When I try to create a persistent partition 23.292
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.194
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.563
And I free up some memory 3.202
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.747
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:49.595
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 14.503
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.115
And all tps features are active 2.093
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.552
When I disable the first tps feature 6.104
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.038
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.879
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.968
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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21.550
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 10.935
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.238
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.126
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.118
When I disable the first tps feature 6.376
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 3.491
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.324
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 10.101
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.547
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 6.365
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.177
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.614
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 10.016
And the network is plugged 0.108
And Tor is ready 21.339
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.590
When I write some files expected to persist 1.548
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.892
# 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" 24.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:8.642
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 10.386
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 21.498
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.204
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.692
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.343
And I capture all network traffic 0.011
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 21.797
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.312
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.099
Tags: @product
1:1.162
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 15.314
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.122
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.618
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:35.221
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 12.943
When I enable persistence 46.917
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.349
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 24.781
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.115
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.795
When I cold reboot the computer 7.781
And the computer reboots Tails 1:3.845
Given I enable persistence 18.577
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.486
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.329
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:36.322
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 11.231
# 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 35.379
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.890
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:5.634
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 31.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
52.675
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 9.961
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.853
Then persistence is disabled 0.318
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.724
And all notifications have disappeared 7.905
When I delete the persistent partition 6.811
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.010
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 10.278
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.318
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.927
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:39.771
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 9.119
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.111
When I try to enable persistence 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 30.003
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.940
And all notifications have disappeared 9.446
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.291
And all tps features are enabled 2.569
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:29.856
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 3:7.174
And I enable persistence 29.873
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.361
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.757
And persistence is enabled 2.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.899
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 8.598
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.540
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.137
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 9.637
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.102
When I enable persistence 28.634
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.758
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 9.017
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.512
When I try to enable persistence 1.449
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.683
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.314
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.394
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.630
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.255
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:53.947
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 9.001
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.133
When I try to enable persistence 0.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.467
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I log in to a new session 40.206
And all notifications have disappeared 8.194
# 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" 1.414
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.382
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.659
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.681
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:58.379
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 9.365
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.423
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.630
When I try to enable persistence 0.407
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.499
When I log in to a new session 49.114
And all notifications have disappeared 8.730
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.288
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000