Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5700 06 Jun 2025, 13:06

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 45:42.282 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:37.185
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 1:52.193
And I update APT using apt 15.581
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.095
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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54.601
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 14.253
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.716
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.642
And persistence is disabled 0.392
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:24.651
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 15.544
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.503
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.415
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.927
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 3.078
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.050
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.570
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.427
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.075
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1:28.658
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 27.305
And the system is very low on memory 3.230
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.385
When I try to create a persistent partition 35.635
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.218
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.530
And I free up some memory 3.646
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.419
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:9.806
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 14.441
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.873
And all tps features are active 2.560
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.701
When I disable the first tps feature 7.116
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.574
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.628
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:21.282
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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20.846
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 10.259
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.136
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.152
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 6.093
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.144
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 3.727
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.764
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 9.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.135
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I disable the first tps feature 6.070
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.867
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.604
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 9.956
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 23.540
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.834
When I write some files expected to persist 1.828
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.167
# 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" 25.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:13.795
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 10.175
And the network is plugged 0.096
And Tor is ready 18.029
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.200
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.864
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:14.601
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.625
And Tor is ready 20.550
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.389
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.052
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1:3.476
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 16.260
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.292
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.502
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:49.733
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 15.936
When I enable persistence 45.410
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.111
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 29.704
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.716
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.511
When I cold reboot the computer 14.487
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.049
Given I enable persistence 17.940
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.599
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.641
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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4:0.587
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 10.494
# 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 39.087
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.405
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:20.657
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:5.369
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 11.503
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.934
Then persistence is disabled 0.557
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.165
And all notifications have disappeared 11.654
When I delete the persistent partition 6.487
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:33.949
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 9.958
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.287
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:14.156
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:51.604
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.977
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.116
When I try to enable persistence 0.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 38.702
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.150
And all notifications have disappeared 7.810
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.374
And all tps features are enabled 2.811
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:48.817
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 5:25.796
And I enable persistence 34.259
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.614
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.146
And persistence is enabled 3.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.151
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.818
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.538
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.440
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.761
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.186
When I enable persistence 41.421
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.092
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.984
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 9.507
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.786
When I try to enable persistence 0.584
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 38.755
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.019
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.311
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.277
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:58.683
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 9.393
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.116
When I try to enable persistence 0.362
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.981
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I log in to a new session 41.507
And all notifications have disappeared 8.369
# 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" 0.398
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.163
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.462
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.089
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:8.569
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 9.209
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.229
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.769
When I try to enable persistence 0.476
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 24.408
When I log in to a new session 53.082
And all notifications have disappeared 10.186
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.092
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000