Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5682 28 May 2025, 13:07

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 42:27.347 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:48.312
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:6.259
And I update APT using apt 13.273
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.237
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.216
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 13.313
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.364
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.617
And persistence is disabled 0.362
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:26.467
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 28.156
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.398
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.147
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.457
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.018
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.934
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.910
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.361
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:3.165
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 11.756
And the system is very low on memory 6.464
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.125
When I try to create a persistent partition 23.341
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.309
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.782
And I free up some memory 3.822
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.286
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:58.751
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.857
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.400
And all tps features are active 2.393
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.657
When I disable the first tps feature 6.422
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.192
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.404
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.158
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
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21.552
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 10.542
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.136
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.119
When I disable the first tps feature 6.542
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 3.714
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.632
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.707
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I disable the first tps feature 6.045
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.640
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.485
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 9.752
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 18.241
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.580
When I write some files expected to persist 1.651
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.385
# 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" 24.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:11.718
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 9.481
And the network is plugged 0.094
And Tor is ready 17.218
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.210
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.726
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:13.249
And I capture all network traffic 0.011
And the network is plugged 0.091
And Tor is ready 21.850
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.483
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.124
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
Tags: @product
58.069
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.260
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.122
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.653
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:58.423
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 30.759
When I enable persistence 37.600
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.559
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.021
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 54.148
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.715
When I cold reboot the computer 7.651
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.997
Given I enable persistence 18.373
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.664
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.192
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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4:21.477
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 10.062
# 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 41.299
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.320
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:28.347
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 46.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
58.836
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 10.472
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.819
Then persistence is disabled 0.386
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.275
And all notifications have disappeared 9.362
When I delete the persistent partition 6.575
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:38.923
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 10.021
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.188
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.881
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.478
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:42.816
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 8.979
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.100
When I try to enable persistence 0.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 29.261
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.368
And all notifications have disappeared 9.753
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.280
And all tps features are enabled 2.764
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:36.996
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 3:12.474
And I enable persistence 31.900
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.094
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.495
And persistence is enabled 3.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.412
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 10.784
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.317
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.810
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 9.357
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.020
When I enable persistence 30.555
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.116
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.429
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 9.480
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.428
When I try to enable persistence 1.444
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 24.136
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.862
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.941
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.296
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.238
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:56.667
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 8.959
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.112
When I try to enable persistence 0.347
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.926
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.719
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.082
When I log in to a new session 42.729
And all notifications have disappeared 11.166
# 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" 0.766
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.519
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.774
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.484
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:59.179
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 8.891
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.458
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.588
When I try to enable persistence 0.420
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.171
When I log in to a new session 49.523
And all notifications have disappeared 9.027
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.311
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000