Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5666 21 May 2025, 09:03

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 46:11.715 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:25.021
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:41.401
And I update APT using apt 15.057
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.009
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.704
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 11.533
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.736
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.564
And persistence is disabled 0.508
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:22.428
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 13.609
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.445
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.355
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.963
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.449
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.957
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:25.429
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 1.145
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:24.465
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 30.532
And the system is very low on memory 4.261
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.344
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.953
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.317
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.749
And I free up some memory 3.515
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.463
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:14.001
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 15.126
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.432
And all tps features are active 2.887
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.789
When I disable the first tps feature 6.550
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.386
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.531
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.955
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
21.881
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 11.564
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.156
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.098
When I disable the first tps feature 6.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.084
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.066
When I enable the first tps feature 3.181
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.167
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 9.581
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.201
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I disable the first tps feature 6.552
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.669
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:10.514
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 9.857
And the network is plugged 0.131
And Tor is ready 22.199
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.712
When I write some files expected to persist 1.624
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.825
# 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" 27.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:24.209
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 10.414
And the network is plugged 0.102
And Tor is ready 19.762
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.207
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.000
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:23.093
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.116
And Tor is ready 20.858
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.391
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.092
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
Tags: @product
1:4.859
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 15.739
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.491
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.230
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:53.672
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 13.991
When I enable persistence 39.043
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.621
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 28.643
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 56.265
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.936
When I cold reboot the computer 9.723
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.508
Given I enable persistence 21.034
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.559
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.761
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
4:22.017
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 11.138
# 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 43.893
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.724
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:34.622
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 38.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
1:6.414
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 11.962
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.079
Then persistence is disabled 0.503
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.440
And all notifications have disappeared 11.557
When I delete the persistent partition 7.793
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:46.850
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 10.539
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.480
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:25.855
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
1:42.657
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.156
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.111
When I try to enable persistence 0.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 34.792
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.755
And all notifications have disappeared 9.145
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 5.154
And all tps features are enabled 3.214
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
7:4.227
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 5:13.499
And I enable persistence 50.643
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 53.883
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.304
And persistence is enabled 4.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.514
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 10.546
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.072
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.887
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 10.795
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.671
When I enable persistence 34.305
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.108
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.497
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 8.923
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.678
When I try to enable persistence 1.518
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.624
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.605
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.164
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.251
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:7.082
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 10.079
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.163
When I try to enable persistence 0.318
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 36.475
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.341
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.095
When I log in to a new session 44.137
And all notifications have disappeared 9.614
# 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" 0.343
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.764
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.450
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.279
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:9.640
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.574
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.519
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.600
When I try to enable persistence 0.457
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 22.149
When I log in to a new session 56.430
And all notifications have disappeared 8.718
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.372
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000