Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5537 29 Mar 2025, 12:43

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 44:45.114 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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7:44.115
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 1:32.439
And I update APT using apt 4:14.054
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 1:55.804
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.226
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 11.246
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.090
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.579
And persistence is disabled 0.470
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:3.863
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 14.137
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.441
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.347
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.713
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.708
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.651
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.667
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:0.933
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 10.716
And the system is very low on memory 3.659
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.457
When I try to create a persistent partition 26.533
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.591
And I free up some memory 3.412
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.992
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.456
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 12.041
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.554
And all tps features are active 2.165
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.511
When I disable the first tps feature 5.583
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.898
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.887
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.843
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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19.234
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 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 5.793
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 3.129
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.700
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 9.748
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.110
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I disable the first tps feature 6.045
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.669
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.960
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 9.071
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 21.100
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.548
When I write some files expected to persist 1.464
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.646
# 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" 24.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:36.327
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 9.190
And the network is plugged 0.068
And Tor is ready 48.988
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.197
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.526
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.173
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.098
And Tor is ready 19.518
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.352
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
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1:2.837
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 12.538
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.154
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.636
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:17.795
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 12.106
When I enable persistence 32.349
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.871
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.614
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.710
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.473
When I cold reboot the computer 7.547
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.265
Given I enable persistence 15.786
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.448
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.087
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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3:42.223
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 10.033
# 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 33.366
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.775
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:13.161
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:1.872
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 11.852
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.104
Then persistence is disabled 0.344
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.873
And all notifications have disappeared 10.852
When I delete the persistent partition 5.918
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:34.935
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 9.442
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.851
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:14.200
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:38.340
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 9.230
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.091
When I try to enable persistence 0.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 28.409
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.979
And all notifications have disappeared 9.263
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.942
And all tps features are enabled 2.328
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:12.813
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 2:50.871
And I enable persistence 28.835
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.167
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.479
And persistence is enabled 2.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.740
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 8.439
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.589
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.847
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 9.543
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.027
When I enable persistence 24.644
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.087
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.208
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 8.745
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.160
When I try to enable persistence 0.437
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 23.908
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.531
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.384
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.269
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:44.059
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 8.794
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 0.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 24.955
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I log in to a new session 41.028
And all notifications have disappeared 8.977
# 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" 1.101
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.607
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.549
Then the Tor Browser starts 14.102
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:48.622
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 8.487
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.325
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.615
When I try to enable persistence 0.418
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 17.187
When I log in to a new session 50.676
And all notifications have disappeared 7.402
Then the Tor Browser starts 16.777
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000