Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5663 20 May 2025, 08:51

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 46:27.503 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:23.292
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 1:40.901
And I update APT using apt 13.446
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 25.848
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.936
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 12.517
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.456
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.684
And persistence is disabled 0.408
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:20.305
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 15.931
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.568
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.136
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.100
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.204
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.769
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.153
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.351
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:15.773
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 12.620
And the system is very low on memory 4.521
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.494
When I try to create a persistent partition 29.932
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 4.526
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.549
And I free up some memory 2.891
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.809
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:8.252
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 14.153
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.731
And all tps features are active 2.903
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.144
When I disable the first tps feature 7.060
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.416
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.267
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.016
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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20.994
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 11.352
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I disable the first tps feature 5.778
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.207
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.101
When I enable the first tps feature 3.142
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.112
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.200
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 9.921
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 6.391
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.675
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.959
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 9.465
And the network is plugged 0.078
And Tor is ready 20.864
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.631
When I write some files expected to persist 1.623
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.702
# 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" 24.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:6.080
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 10.206
And the network is plugged 0.074
And Tor is ready 18.330
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.208
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.869
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.074
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.088
And Tor is ready 19.672
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.345
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
Tags: @product
1:6.734
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 19.317
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.669
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.961
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:54.455
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 11.600
When I enable persistence 34.943
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.350
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.847
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 51.729
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.362
When I cold reboot the computer 7.500
And the computer reboots Tails 1:9.798
Given I enable persistence 36.597
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.881
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.423
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
4:11.265
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.948
# 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 44.353
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.152
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:27.396
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 34.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
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1:0.946
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 10.895
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.692
Then persistence is disabled 0.238
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.716
And all notifications have disappeared 11.279
When I delete the persistent partition 6.178
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:40.569
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 10.962
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.980
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:20.085
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:48.263
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 9.714
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 0.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 32.954
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.041
And all notifications have disappeared 7.130
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.979
And all tps features are enabled 2.866
And all tps features but the first one are active 3.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
7:50.638
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 6:20.072
And I enable persistence 40.594
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.288
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.027
And persistence is enabled 3.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.718
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.670
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.865
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.075
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 10.396
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.974
When I enable persistence 35.825
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.109
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.690
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.694
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.285
When I try to enable persistence 0.581
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.486
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.317
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.354
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.000
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.355
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:21.939
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 23.459
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.109
When I try to enable persistence 1.403
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 34.426
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.533
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.082
When I log in to a new session 44.800
And all notifications have disappeared 10.470
# 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" 0.594
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.512
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.535
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.122
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:16.409
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 9.432
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.827
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.538
When I try to enable persistence 2.440
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 30.863
When I log in to a new session 51.273
And all notifications have disappeared 10.749
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.231
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000