Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5539 31 Mar 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 49:9.662 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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6:1.290
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:44.948
And I update APT using apt 2:45.574
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 1:28.272
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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52.759
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 11.534
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 28.615
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.521
And persistence is disabled 0.538
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:43.921
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 14.673
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.482
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.148
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.280
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.979
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.075
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:43.802
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.407
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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1:9.797
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.893
And the system is very low on memory 6.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.180
When I try to create a persistent partition 29.185
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.221
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.879
And I free up some memory 3.463
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.009
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:22.461
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 13.051
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.631
And all tps features are active 2.623
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.784
When I disable the first tps feature 6.612
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.366
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.172
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:38.590
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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24.695
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 13.330
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.116
When I disable the first tps feature 7.384
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.099
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.067
When I enable the first tps feature 3.340
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.278
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 11.132
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I disable the first tps feature 8.471
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.366
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.346
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 14.309
And the network is plugged 0.122
And Tor is ready 21.184
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.100
When I write some files expected to persist 1.812
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.759
# 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" 25.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:17.760
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 9.833
And the network is plugged 0.112
And Tor is ready 19.238
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.231
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.647
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.056
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.520
And Tor is ready 19.345
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.529
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.068
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1:18.391
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 28.007
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.221
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.139
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:36.999
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 12.816
When I enable persistence 39.241
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.502
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 29.895
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.134
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.460
When I cold reboot the computer 7.733
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.448
Given I enable persistence 23.514
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.583
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.320
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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3:56.994
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 9.950
# 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 36.390
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.216
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:18.236
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 34.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:3.884
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 10.087
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.636
Then persistence is disabled 0.389
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.543
And all notifications have disappeared 10.675
When I delete the persistent partition 6.538
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:43.927
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 10.443
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.765
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.043
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:42.473
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 9.668
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.120
When I try to enable persistence 0.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 32.839
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.598
And all notifications have disappeared 8.071
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.203
And all tps features are enabled 2.473
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:54.319
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:27.321
And I enable persistence 32.346
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.729
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.943
And persistence is enabled 2.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.544
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.893
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 26.844
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.157
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 9.711
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.286
When I enable persistence 30.203
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.088
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.029
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 9.058
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.796
When I try to enable persistence 0.420
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.932
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.524
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.473
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.023
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.274
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:53.619
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 9.745
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.130
When I try to enable persistence 0.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 33.741
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.384
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I log in to a new session 36.550
And all notifications have disappeared 7.813
# 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" 1.732
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.663
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.453
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.833
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:10.009
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 11.127
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.530
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.689
When I try to enable persistence 0.408
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.449
When I log in to a new session 53.479
And all notifications have disappeared 7.718
Then the Tor Browser starts 26.614
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000