Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5716 15 Jun 2025, 14:16

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 42:2.554 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:21.189
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:39.185
And I update APT using apt 13.495
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.269
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.383
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 12.653
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.937
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.894
And persistence is disabled 0.340
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:6.144
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 12.189
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.543
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.245
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.855
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.248
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.565
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.983
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.443
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:11.479
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.003
And the system is very low on memory 4.645
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.323
When I try to create a persistent partition 31.782
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.633
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.725
And I free up some memory 3.578
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.226
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:1.870
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 13.011
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.400
And all tps features are active 2.577
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.742
When I disable the first tps feature 5.465
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.891
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.476
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
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20.418
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 enabled and logged in 11.142
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 5.547
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 3.139
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.115
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.281
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 10.219
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 5.209
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.666
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.950
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 9.541
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 19.320
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.636
When I write some files expected to persist 1.619
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.686
# 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" 27.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:13.721
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 11.030
And the network is plugged 0.087
And Tor is ready 17.957
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.262
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.357
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:14.350
And I capture all network traffic 0.102
And the network is plugged 0.236
And Tor is ready 17.765
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.304
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.104
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.080
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1:1.814
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 13.192
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.133
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.184
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:49.338
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 12.637
When I enable persistence 41.656
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.085
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 27.845
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 54.294
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.714
When I cold reboot the computer 7.833
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.716
Given I enable persistence 19.268
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.525
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.505
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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3:50.240
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 10.115
# 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 31.301
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.482
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:16.879
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 36.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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58.594
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 10.056
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.237
Then persistence is disabled 0.492
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.733
And all notifications have disappeared 7.476
When I delete the persistent partition 6.422
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.663
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 9.807
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.336
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.007
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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1:51.288
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 9.143
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 0.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 32.641
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 51.616
And all notifications have disappeared 8.105
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.731
And all tps features are enabled 2.619
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:5.568
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 3:38.127
And I enable persistence 36.295
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.083
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.491
And persistence is enabled 2.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.219
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.144
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.158
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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54.000
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 9.705
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.094
When I enable persistence 35.009
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.880
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.637
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.887
When I try to enable persistence 0.393
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 26.304
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.667
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.503
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 4.221
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.258
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:2.028
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.136
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.124
When I try to enable persistence 0.314
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 34.123
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I log in to a new session 40.899
And all notifications have disappeared 7.976
# 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" 1.175
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.106
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.440
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.238
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:59.476
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 9.531
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.633
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.663
When I try to enable persistence 1.478
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.655
When I log in to a new session 44.780
And all notifications have disappeared 9.701
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.984
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 2.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000