Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5703 09 Jun 2025, 12:23

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 38:14.446 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:11.749
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 1:32.145
And I update APT using apt 13.666
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 22.750
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.583
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 10.180
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.081
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.498
And persistence is disabled 0.433
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:5.231
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 12.000
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.420
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.392
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.080
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.396
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.969
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.780
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:5.532
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 9.842
And the system is very low on memory 4.046
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.974
When I try to create a persistent partition 31.461
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.236
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.687
And I free up some memory 3.644
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.376
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:45.118
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 11.864
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.405
And all tps features are active 2.121
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.339
When I disable the first tps feature 5.062
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.904
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.733
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:6.623
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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19.463
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 10.110
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 5.667
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 3.158
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.595
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 9.577
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 5.172
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.641
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.911
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 9.178
And the network is plugged 0.093
And Tor is ready 20.257
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.593
When I write some files expected to persist 1.374
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.528
# 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" 23.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:30.888
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 9.468
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 18.789
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.281
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.535
And I capture all network traffic 0.022
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 47.910
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.316
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.052
Tags: @product
53.056
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 11.023
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.123
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.339
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:12.734
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 11.159
When I enable persistence 31.802
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.219
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.988
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.669
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.571
When I cold reboot the computer 7.259
And the computer reboots Tails 1:0.597
Given I enable persistence 16.409
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.575
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 36.715
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:39.335
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 9.721
# 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 32.652
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.508
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:4.117
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
52.520
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 9.656
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.401
Then persistence is disabled 0.353
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.990
And all notifications have disappeared 7.343
When I delete the persistent partition 5.993
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:24.197
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 9.900
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.728
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.115
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:31.593
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 9.165
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 0.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 27.128
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.241
And all notifications have disappeared 7.546
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 3.734
And all tps features are enabled 2.645
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:4.396
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 2:48.352
And I enable persistence 32.045
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.507
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.086
And persistence is enabled 2.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.853
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 8.295
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.796
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.251
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 8.767
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.959
When I enable persistence 26.516
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.092
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.943
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 8.872
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.258
When I try to enable persistence 0.466
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 21.354
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.691
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.281
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.237
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.379
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:43.774
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 8.957
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.100
When I try to enable persistence 0.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.050
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I log in to a new session 36.849
And all notifications have disappeared 6.478
# 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" 1.861
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.117
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.758
Then the Tor Browser starts 17.115
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:54.711
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 8.605
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.463
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.612
When I try to enable persistence 0.392
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 17.608
When I log in to a new session 49.967
And all notifications have disappeared 7.405
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.799
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000