Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5671 23 May 2025, 08:57

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 45:32.420 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:29.495
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 1:46.426
And I update APT using apt 14.229
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.371
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.938
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.674
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 30.850
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.602
And persistence is disabled 0.366
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:25.765
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 15.209
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.392
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.138
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.512
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.780
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.424
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.677
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.516
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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1:11.129
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.035
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 13.707
And the system is very low on memory 5.890
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.128
When I try to create a persistent partition 30.410
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.407
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.609
And I free up some memory 3.679
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.026
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:1.640
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.028
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.015
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.918
And all tps features are active 2.596
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.467
When I disable the first tps feature 6.470
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.269
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.456
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.971
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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21.755
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 11.794
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.375
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.110
When I disable the first tps feature 5.868
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.097
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.067
When I enable the first tps feature 3.138
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.969
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 9.926
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.124
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.180
And I disable the first tps feature 6.990
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.702
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:12.025
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 9.892
And the network is plugged 0.103
And Tor is ready 24.247
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.630
When I write some files expected to persist 1.916
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.076
# 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" 26.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:19.383
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 9.905
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 20.186
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.212
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 2:18.168
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 20.775
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.485
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.226
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
1:7.497
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 17.584
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.150
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.163
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:51.738
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 12.400
When I enable persistence 41.370
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.367
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 28.001
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 54.588
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.333
When I cold reboot the computer 7.580
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.552
Given I enable persistence 23.052
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.565
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.415
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
4:33.441
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 10.779
# 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 53.445
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.506
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:26.531
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 49.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:6.132
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 10.683
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.141
Then persistence is disabled 0.629
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.194
And all notifications have disappeared 10.722
When I delete the persistent partition 7.826
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.239
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 10.041
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.015
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:30.417
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.070
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1:49.181
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 9.765
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.095
When I try to enable persistence 0.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 37.717
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.541
And all notifications have disappeared 9.541
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 5.146
And all tps features are enabled 3.728
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:3.512
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 4:27.734
And I enable persistence 45.480
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.314
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.058
And persistence is enabled 3.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.027
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
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 12.842
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.234
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.363
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.524
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.319
When I enable persistence 28.486
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.098
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.916
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 9.835
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.092
When I try to enable persistence 0.475
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.839
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.568
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.781
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.438
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.323
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:8.880
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 9.109
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.101
When I try to enable persistence 0.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 35.308
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I log in to a new session 43.965
And all notifications have disappeared 11.992
# 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" 0.613
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.370
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.702
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.137
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:26.385
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 11.558
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.950
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.594
When I try to enable persistence 0.398
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 21.076
When I log in to a new session 57.733
And all notifications have disappeared 10.603
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.487
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000