Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5692 02 Jun 2025, 13:19

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 51:53.973 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:26.429
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 1:43.355
And I update APT using apt 14.319
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.219
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.234
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 12.432
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.521
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.792
And persistence is disabled 0.532
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 23.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:31.066
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 16.040
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.507
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.137
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.233
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.889
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.261
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:34.601
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.326
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:2.053
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 13.481
And the system is very low on memory 3.975
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.853
When I try to create a persistent partition 24.470
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.259
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.805
And I free up some memory 3.414
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.491
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:6.560
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 13.079
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.899
And all tps features are active 2.891
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.860
When I disable the first tps feature 6.363
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.320
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.246
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:19.168
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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20.994
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 11.034
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.167
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.252
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.110
When I disable the first tps feature 5.992
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.102
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.076
When I enable the first tps feature 3.123
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.760
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 9.269
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I disable the first tps feature 6.561
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.683
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:12.160
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 9.644
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 22.444
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.570
When I write some files expected to persist 1.571
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.603
# 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" 27.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:44.507
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 9.715
And the network is plugged 0.095
And Tor is ready 18.309
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.203
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.996
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:16.796
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.078
And Tor is ready 49.649
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.361
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
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1:3.149
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 15.165
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.231
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.979
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:55.737
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 14.109
When I enable persistence 42.085
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.279
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 30.966
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.858
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.589
When I cold reboot the computer 8.471
And the computer reboots Tails 1:9.489
Given I enable persistence 23.983
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.523
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.648
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
4:8.860
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 13.579
# 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 37.349
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.707
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:28.607
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:3.664
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 10.574
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.181
Then persistence is disabled 0.405
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.318
And all notifications have disappeared 10.810
When I delete the persistent partition 7.487
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.294
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 9.928
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.816
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:28.935
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:55.559
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 9.937
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.097
When I try to enable persistence 0.354
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 34.935
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.641
And all notifications have disappeared 10.912
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 5.112
And all tps features are enabled 5.558
And all tps features but the first one are active 3.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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11:45.680
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10:19.719
And I enable persistence 39.799
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.253
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.739
And persistence is enabled 3.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.122
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 13.438
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 37.769
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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56.849
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 10.230
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.139
When I enable persistence 34.761
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.087
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.012
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 10.243
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.962
When I try to enable persistence 1.628
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 31.104
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.051
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.685
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.300
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:20.145
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 22.692
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.155
When I try to enable persistence 0.352
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 32.629
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.150
When I log in to a new session 47.819
And all notifications have disappeared 11.007
# 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" 0.534
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.061
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.573
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.740
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:16.131
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 9.183
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.893
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.561
When I try to enable persistence 1.555
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.775
When I log in to a new session 51.485
And all notifications have disappeared 8.696
Then the Tor Browser starts 25.940
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000