Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3895 03 Jul 2025, 15:03

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 43:48.545 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:25.496
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.056
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:42.132
And I update APT using apt 14.174
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.429
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.509
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 10.690
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.116
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.732
And persistence is disabled 0.535
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:24.433
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 12.317
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.591
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.696
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.708
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.183
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:32.315
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.416
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:3.658
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 10.879
And the system is very low on memory 3.996
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.673
When I try to create a persistent partition 28.575
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.529
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.702
And I free up some memory 2.731
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.295
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:8.677
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 12.342
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.447
And all tps features are active 2.371
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.655
When I disable the first tps feature 6.819
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.656
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.210
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:23.833
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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21.155
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 10.216
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I disable the first tps feature 7.001
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.099
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 3.373
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.711
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 9.661
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 6.149
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.697
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:12.302
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 10.292
And the network is plugged 0.107
And Tor is ready 23.939
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.610
When I write some files expected to persist 1.664
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.518
# 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" 27.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:49.264
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 10.049
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 21.031
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.196
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.770
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.668
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 45.735
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.419
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
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1:2.599
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.039
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.498
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.884
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:34.665
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.073
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.897
When I enable persistence 37.934
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.182
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 29.567
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.598
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.609
When I cold reboot the computer 7.797
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.535
Given I enable persistence 17.189
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.511
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.271
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
4:3.617
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 10.584
# 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 39.350
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.764
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:19.926
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 38.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:5.196
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 9.521
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.083
Then persistence is disabled 0.651
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.916
And all notifications have disappeared 14.126
When I delete the persistent partition 7.063
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:55.707
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 9.341
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.616
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:34.305
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:49.303
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 9.081
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.090
When I try to enable persistence 0.404
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 31.594
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.825
And all notifications have disappeared 9.817
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.473
And all tps features are enabled 2.809
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:56.933
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
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 3:27.439
And I enable persistence 35.585
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.024
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.965
And persistence is enabled 2.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.755
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.856
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.999
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.883
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 10.825
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.757
When I enable persistence 35.525
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.088
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.407
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 9.040
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.245
When I try to enable persistence 1.976
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.651
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.638
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.879
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.086
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.261
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:59.687
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.162
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.116
When I try to enable persistence 0.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.015
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.180
When I log in to a new session 42.865
And all notifications have disappeared 9.648
# 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" 0.538
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.605
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.598
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.250
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:12.577
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 9.794
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.205
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.720
When I try to enable persistence 0.460
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 21.634
When I log in to a new session 48.115
And all notifications have disappeared 9.968
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.030
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000