Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_feature-trixie 16 05 Jun 2025, 18:22

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 55:7.419 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:59.306
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:15.452
And I update APT using apt 12.684
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 27.471
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.873
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 12.979
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 40.839
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.625
And persistence is disabled 0.466
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:20.337
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 13.548
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.580
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.169
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.836
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.397
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.505
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:22.804
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.417
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:16.449
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 21.959
And the system is very low on memory 4.883
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.846
When I try to create a persistent partition 21.980
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.701
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.862
And I free up some memory 3.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.158
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:10.735
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 36.858
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.700
And all tps features are active 2.634
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.892
When I disable the first tps feature 4.374
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.655
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.223
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:4.341
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
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21.243
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 12.219
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.126
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I disable the first tps feature 4.778
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.114
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 3.601
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.083
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 9.883
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.105
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I disable the first tps feature 8.607
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.322
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.250
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 9.978
And the network is plugged 0.104
And Tor is ready 26.950
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.870
When I write some files expected to persist 1.843
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.897
# 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" 25.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:45.186
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 10.687
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 26.182
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.901
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.871
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:29.234
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.111
And Tor is ready 19.933
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.752
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.203
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
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1:46.121
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 35.821
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.484
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 39.822
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 28.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:22.123
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 20.868
When I enable persistence 1:4.386
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.050
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 34.256
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.597
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.471
When I cold reboot the computer 11.327
And the computer reboots Tails 1:57.264
Given I enable persistence 23.922
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.955
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.520
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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5:1.772
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 11.955
# 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 38.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.274
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 3:29.429
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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1:27.726
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 10.867
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 35.439
Then persistence is disabled 0.949
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 21.546
And all notifications have disappeared 13.809
When I delete the persistent partition 4.628
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:35.022
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 11.174
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.657
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:11.531
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 1.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
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2:4.153
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.028
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.290
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 0.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 42.030
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.457
And all notifications have disappeared 17.448
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.533
And all tps features are enabled 3.681
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:45.189
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 5:13.406
And I enable persistence 45.222
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.056
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.756
And persistence is enabled 5.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.235
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 9.089
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 26.259
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.960
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 9.319
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.732
When I enable persistence 43.332
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.084
And persistence is successfully enabled 4.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.559
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.793
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.808
When I try to enable persistence 0.662
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.757
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.333
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.123
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.134
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.344
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:15.577
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 9.308
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.157
When I try to enable persistence 0.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 38.437
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I log in to a new session 39.527
And all notifications have disappeared 30.871
# 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" 1.552
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 4.427
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.532
Then the Tor Browser starts 6.743
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:11.510
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 9.487
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.556
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 2.085
When I try to enable persistence 0.392
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 28.529
When I log in to a new session 38.121
And all notifications have disappeared 17.002
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.089
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000