Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5727 19 Jun 2025, 12:43

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 39:32.411 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:14.669
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 1:33.151
And I update APT using apt 12.575
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.091
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.259
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 11.158
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.358
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.519
And persistence is disabled 0.422
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:1.067
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 12.768
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.747
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.600
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.861
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.787
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.822
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.284
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:5.615
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 11.442
And the system is very low on memory 3.512
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.360
When I try to create a persistent partition 31.048
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.595
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.577
And I free up some memory 3.075
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.735
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:51.640
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 12.506
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.506
And all tps features are active 2.803
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.594
When I disable the first tps feature 6.350
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.176
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.550
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:7.040
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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20.505
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 10.600
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.110
When I disable the first tps feature 6.224
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 3.139
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.352
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 9.820
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.146
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.204
And I disable the first tps feature 5.850
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.162
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.083
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 9.972
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 20.572
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.521
When I write some files expected to persist 1.437
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.590
# 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" 24.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:34.823
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 9.806
And the network is plugged 0.079
And Tor is ready 16.771
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.242
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.098
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:10.528
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.068
And Tor is ready 47.664
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.316
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
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55.387
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 12.434
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.111
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.104
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:28.688
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 11.593
When I enable persistence 35.057
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.443
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.186
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 48.186
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.259
When I cold reboot the computer 15.483
And the computer reboots Tails 59.206
Given I enable persistence 17.812
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.530
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 40.337
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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3:29.739
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 10.189
# 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 32.826
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.024
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:5.232
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
58.717
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 10.095
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.877
Then persistence is disabled 0.471
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.626
And all notifications have disappeared 10.896
When I delete the persistent partition 5.925
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.370
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 9.904
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.208
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.712
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:37.716
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 9.598
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 0.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 28.492
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.030
And all notifications have disappeared 8.216
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.166
And all tps features are enabled 2.678
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:8.883
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 2:50.526
And I enable persistence 28.481
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.315
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 2.339
And persistence is enabled 5.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.982
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 8.531
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.651
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.437
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.723
When I enable persistence 26.131
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.272
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 8.726
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.060
When I try to enable persistence 0.391
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.608
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.782
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.458
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.235
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:53.468
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 8.973
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.118
When I try to enable persistence 0.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.307
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I log in to a new session 41.638
And all notifications have disappeared 9.254
# 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" 0.357
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.858
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.597
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.724
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:0.935
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 9.801
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.000
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.600
When I try to enable persistence 0.421
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.686
When I log in to a new session 52.717
And all notifications have disappeared 7.084
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.716
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000