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test_Tails_ISO_fix-homepage-image 5 15 Jul 2025, 08:07

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 56:2.458 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:46.024
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.077
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:49.604
And I update APT using apt 20.084
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 30.571
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 5.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.371
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.814
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 33.169
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.687
And persistence is disabled 0.597
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 19.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:20.478
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 18.564
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.508
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.167
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 35.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.920
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.519
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:6.257
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.393
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
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1:19.055
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 13.524
And the system is very low on memory 5.372
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.301
When I try to create a persistent partition 30.265
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.168
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.828
And I free up some memory 5.450
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.961
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:9.919
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 enabled and logged in 32.224
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.475
And all tps features are active 5.996
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 5.390
When I disable the first tps feature 6.453
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.668
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.061
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:54.786
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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30.071
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 enabled and logged in 15.069
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.103
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.090
When I disable the first tps feature 6.916
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.439
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.310
When I enable the first tps feature 6.574
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.246
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.904
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.456
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.662
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.952
And I disable the first tps feature 9.733
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.035
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.721
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 17.048
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 31.824
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.883
When I write some files expected to persist 2.081
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.839
# 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" 35.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:31.782
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 enabled and logged in 15.634
And the network is plugged 0.098
And Tor is ready 27.202
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.198
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.838
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 3:0.647
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.074
And Tor is ready 34.157
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.971
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.493
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
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1:21.246
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 17.484
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.690
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 26.484
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 35.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:57.439
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 17.592
When I enable persistence 57.901
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.450
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 33.410
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:1.014
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.570
When I cold reboot the computer 12.167
And the computer reboots Tails 1:24.150
Given I enable persistence 28.459
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 1.131
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.292
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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4:40.014
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.461
# 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 43.081
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.973
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:45.774
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 39.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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1:22.628
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 15.736
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 27.219
Then persistence is disabled 0.472
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.191
And all notifications have disappeared 14.336
When I delete the persistent partition 10.846
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:19.176
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.079
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.276
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.230
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.542
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:48.720
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 3.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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2:25.764
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.968
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 0.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 51.591
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 1:0.289
And all notifications have disappeared 7.415
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 7.813
And all tps features are enabled 5.107
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:4.588
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 4:11.475
And I enable persistence 48.658
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 59.542
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.637
And persistence is enabled 3.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.111
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.533
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 33.549
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.487
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 10.128
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.590
When I enable persistence 50.144
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.364
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.244
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 15.618
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.050
When I try to enable persistence 0.407
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 46.310
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.737
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.604
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.548
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.395
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:51.774
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 13.065
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.171
When I try to enable persistence 0.459
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 50.502
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.335
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.293
When I log in to a new session 59.968
And all notifications have disappeared 13.928
# 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" 0.342
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.672
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.457
Then the Tor Browser starts 27.984
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:42.653
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 9.796
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.210
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.479
When I try to enable persistence 0.410
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 40.026
When I log in to a new session 1:0.913
And all notifications have disappeared 8.653
Then the Tor Browser starts 30.257
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000