Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5719 17 Jun 2025, 17:38

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 47:21.388 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:45.807
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.041
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:54.258
And I update APT using apt 17.735
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 31.121
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.346
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 13.756
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 29.218
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.599
And persistence is disabled 0.381
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 17.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:57.774
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 16.351
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.404
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.127
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 30.657
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 3.037
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.653
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:49.633
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.825
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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1:14.470
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 15.542
And the system is very low on memory 5.112
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.489
When I try to create a persistent partition 28.393
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.630
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.797
And I free up some memory 2.851
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.283
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:20.415
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 14.438
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.883
And all tps features are active 2.530
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.715
When I disable the first tps feature 6.030
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.498
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.663
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:30.128
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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22.627
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 11.689
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.238
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.090
When I disable the first tps feature 6.921
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.118
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.062
When I enable the first tps feature 3.147
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.447
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 enabled and logged in 13.313
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.133
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I disable the first tps feature 5.817
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.914
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.917
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 enabled and logged in 10.454
And the network is plugged 0.145
And Tor is ready 24.256
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.576
When I write some files expected to persist 3.641
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.266
# 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" 31.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:42.181
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 11.592
And the network is plugged 0.098
And Tor is ready 26.560
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 1.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.345
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.761
And I capture all network traffic 0.123
And the network is plugged 0.713
And Tor is ready 24.180
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.454
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.114
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
1:9.581
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 12.394
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.535
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 27.620
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 28.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:9.377
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 16.502
When I enable persistence 46.796
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.295
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 31.800
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.435
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.543
When I cold reboot the computer 11.238
And the computer reboots Tails 1:12.501
Given I enable persistence 20.619
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 1.126
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.915
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
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4:40.732
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 11.133
# 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 42.009
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.414
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:49.232
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 42.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:3.950
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.659
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.275
Then persistence is disabled 0.343
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.528
And all notifications have disappeared 7.972
When I delete the persistent partition 6.242
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:4.533
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 13.326
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.100
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.925
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:38.669
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:57.513
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 11.716
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 0.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 39.951
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 44.162
And all notifications have disappeared 9.325
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.914
And all tps features are enabled 2.906
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:4.039
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 3:36.704
And I enable persistence 40.000
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.032
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.250
And persistence is enabled 3.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.608
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.641
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.117
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.712
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.788
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.416
When I enable persistence 32.587
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.115
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.681
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 9.827
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.379
When I try to enable persistence 0.492
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 33.458
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.396
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 2.712
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.261
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.377
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:13.123
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 10.713
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.139
When I try to enable persistence 0.318
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 36.069
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 1.109
When I log in to a new session 46.981
And all notifications have disappeared 8.353
# 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" 0.442
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.383
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.659
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.373
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:17.549
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 9.446
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.143
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.666
When I try to enable persistence 0.573
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 24.551
When I log in to a new session 57.390
And all notifications have disappeared 8.661
Then the Tor Browser starts 26.010
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000