Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5706 10 Jun 2025, 13:21

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 43:12.716 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:49.707
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 2:6.978
And I update APT using apt 14.304
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.207
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.249
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 12.902
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.231
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.556
And persistence is disabled 0.406
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:22.987
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 12.676
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.148
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 35.338
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.555
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.047
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.324
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.427
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:1.682
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 11.199
And the system is very low on memory 3.774
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.841
When I try to create a persistent partition 25.928
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.619
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.678
And I free up some memory 3.997
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.349
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:55.753
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 13.886
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.467
And all tps features are active 2.274
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 6.044
When I disable the first tps feature 5.961
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.005
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.436
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.541
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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19.656
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 9.824
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 6.099
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.100
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 3.177
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.093
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.746
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.381
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.135
And I disable the first tps feature 5.932
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.835
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:34.367
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 9.433
And the network is plugged 0.090
And Tor is ready 49.473
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.616
When I write some files expected to persist 1.595
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.923
# 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" 24.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:8.643
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 10.739
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 19.893
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.207
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.812
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.667
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 20.569
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.359
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.104
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.084
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1:2.869
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 13.204
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.157
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.207
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:24.276
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 12.200
When I enable persistence 36.295
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.225
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.972
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.721
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.546
When I cold reboot the computer 7.623
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.227
Given I enable persistence 15.944
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.569
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 39.454
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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3:50.230
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 11.008
# 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 41.415
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.968
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:6.830
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:0.768
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 9.743
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.596
Then persistence is disabled 0.269
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.060
And all notifications have disappeared 10.741
When I delete the persistent partition 5.528
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:24.773
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 9.790
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.101
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.917
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.519
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:37.480
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 9.803
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.101
When I try to enable persistence 0.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 30.027
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.707
And all notifications have disappeared 8.448
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.435
And all tps features are enabled 3.378
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:33.793
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 5:9.691
And I enable persistence 31.200
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.415
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.854
And persistence is enabled 2.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.680
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 8.936
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.941
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.517
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 8.991
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.890
When I enable persistence 30.902
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.103
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.825
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 8.781
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.453
When I try to enable persistence 0.419
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 23.934
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.567
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.119
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.816
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.270
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:54.714
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 9.403
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.133
When I try to enable persistence 0.355
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 38.108
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.095
When I log in to a new session 30.866
And all notifications have disappeared 7.794
# 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" 0.730
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.600
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.742
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.681
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:46.646
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 10.229
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.200
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.579
When I try to enable persistence 0.469
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 21.695
When I log in to a new session 38.100
And all notifications have disappeared 7.448
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.619
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000