Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 3898 06 Jul 2025, 13:10

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 42:14.678 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:18.553
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:37.038
And I update APT using apt 12.849
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.040
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.558
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 11.223
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.401
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.600
And persistence is disabled 0.470
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:18.853
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 12.399
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.385
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.616
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.586
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.338
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.601
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.512
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:1.151
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 10.451
And the system is very low on memory 2.598
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.930
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.409
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.137
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.628
And I free up some memory 3.175
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.941
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:4.467
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 11.423
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.442
And all tps features are active 2.966
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.182
When I disable the first tps feature 5.801
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.537
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.332
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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19.251
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 9.781
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 5.805
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.081
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.075
When I enable the first tps feature 3.112
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.628
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 9.632
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.126
And I disable the first tps feature 6.160
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.563
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.201
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 23.197
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 22.235
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.719
When I write some files expected to persist 2.001
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.775
# 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" 26.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:41.342
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 10.300
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 16.098
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.412
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.400
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.193
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.102
And Tor is ready 47.990
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.423
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
Tags: @product
58.941
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 11.934
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.164
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:58.368
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 11.751
When I enable persistence 38.843
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.421
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 31.911
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 56.303
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.825
When I cold reboot the computer 7.943
And the computer reboots Tails 1:12.985
Given I enable persistence 18.029
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.526
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.518
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:46.523
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.216
# 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 33.794
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.946
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:15.730
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
Tags: @product
55.501
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.034
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.417
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.948
Then persistence is disabled 0.377
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.638
And all notifications have disappeared 7.660
When I delete the persistent partition 7.513
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:44.878
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.465
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.147
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:25.449
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:43.857
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 10.008
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.092
When I try to enable persistence 0.424
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 33.328
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.228
And all notifications have disappeared 9.395
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.244
And all tps features are enabled 3.043
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:59.515
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 3:31.645
And I enable persistence 33.928
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.112
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.188
And persistence is enabled 2.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.949
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 9.567
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.362
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
46.989
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 9.111
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.363
When I enable persistence 28.655
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.583
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 9.975
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.836
When I try to enable persistence 0.405
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 23.230
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.924
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 2.877
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.325
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:52.202
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 8.698
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.161
When I try to enable persistence 1.402
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.578
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I log in to a new session 40.639
And all notifications have disappeared 8.127
# 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" 0.870
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.136
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.514
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.331
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:57.359
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 9.205
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.843
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.837
When I try to enable persistence 1.479
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 21.293
When I log in to a new session 49.818
And all notifications have disappeared 8.696
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.298
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000