Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5493 04 Mar 2025, 19:02

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 40:23.630 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:24.331
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:41.583
And I update APT using apt 14.698
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 25.786
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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53.376
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 11.060
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 31.579
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.683
And persistence is disabled 0.352
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:5.550
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 logged in 12.390
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.520
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.130
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.590
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.700
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.667
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.992
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.485
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
57.972
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 10.670
And the system is very low on memory 2.730
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.279
When I try to create a persistent partition 23.741
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.457
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.710
And I free up some memory 1.645
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.493
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.015
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 12.706
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.876
And all tps features are active 2.321
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.615
When I disable the first tps feature 6.445
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.011
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.898
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.968
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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21.100
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 10.734
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.542
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.135
When I disable the first tps feature 6.164
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.096
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 3.109
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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21.479
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 10.963
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.120
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 6.621
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.664
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.947
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 10.158
And the network is plugged 0.125
And Tor is ready 23.645
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.563
When I write some files expected to persist 1.491
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.695
# 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" 24.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.462
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 10.057
And the network is plugged 0.101
And Tor is ready 20.841
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.259
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.696
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.616
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 23.231
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.349
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.104
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
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1:2.282
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 12.269
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.167
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.976
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:31.391
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 13.657
When I enable persistence 35.177
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.647
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.370
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 50.857
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.719
When I cold reboot the computer 7.596
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.160
Given I enable persistence 17.077
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.621
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.076
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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3:45.200
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 10.806
# 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 36.996
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.211
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:11.648
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:4.812
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 13.153
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.041
Then persistence is disabled 0.340
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.292
And all notifications have disappeared 12.082
When I delete the persistent partition 6.436
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:29.506
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 10.707
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.183
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.961
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.148
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:38.049
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 8.976
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 31.194
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.619
And all notifications have disappeared 8.433
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.307
And all tps features are enabled 2.520
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:28.823
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 3:5.102
And I enable persistence 32.249
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.310
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.427
And persistence is enabled 3.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.935
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 11.769
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.460
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.795
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 8.828
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.646
When I enable persistence 28.701
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.094
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.657
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 9.616
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.579
When I try to enable persistence 0.416
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.024
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.407
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 1.447
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.258
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:49.790
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 8.761
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 0.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.774
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.247
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 3.892
When I log in to a new session 34.808
And all notifications have disappeared 8.961
# 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" 0.812
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.547
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.530
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.202
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:52.148
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 8.758
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.973
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.585
When I try to enable persistence 1.495
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.893
When I log in to a new session 48.686
And all notifications have disappeared 8.540
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.516
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000