Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5733 24 Jun 2025, 14:51

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 48:48.232 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:40.258
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:54.315
And I update APT using apt 16.173
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.551
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.897
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 21.962
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 27.745
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.619
And persistence is disabled 0.624
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:47.211
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 14.571
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.811
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.376
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.594
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.455
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.539
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:44.261
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.528
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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1:13.901
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 15.717
And the system is very low on memory 3.831
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.660
When I try to create a persistent partition 29.043
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.402
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.627
And I free up some memory 4.662
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.633
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:27.594
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 17.708
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.373
And all tps features are active 2.564
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.877
When I disable the first tps feature 9.067
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.701
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.155
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:30.312
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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26.770
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.030
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.228
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I disable the first tps feature 8.967
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.149
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 3.974
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.773
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 14.196
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.146
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I disable the first tps feature 6.616
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 7.507
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.354
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 11.809
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 29.322
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.627
When I write some files expected to persist 2.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.449
# 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" 29.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:32.319
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 12.348
And the network is plugged 0.137
And Tor is ready 54.161
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.186
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.791
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:23.279
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.093
And Tor is ready 50.672
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.373
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.082
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
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1:8.023
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 14.506
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 2.316
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.346
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:27.130
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 16.894
When I enable persistence 44.439
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.831
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 36.387
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 57.974
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.341
When I cold reboot the computer 7.805
And the computer reboots Tails 1:18.544
Given I enable persistence 20.994
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.652
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 46.773
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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4:31.637
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 12.890
# 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 45.787
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.869
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:40.619
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 38.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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1:11.862
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 11.867
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.748
Then persistence is disabled 0.579
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 17.629
And all notifications have disappeared 10.784
When I delete the persistent partition 7.001
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.654
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 13.506
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.785
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:27.570
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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2:1.394
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 9.625
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 0.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 38.947
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.800
And all notifications have disappeared 9.245
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 5.998
And all tps features are enabled 4.034
And all tps features but the first one are active 3.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:10.050
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
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 4:43.036
And I enable persistence 37.681
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.719
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.626
And persistence is enabled 3.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.155
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 9.242
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.083
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.907
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 10.747
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.819
When I enable persistence 28.463
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.099
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.376
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 9.419
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.791
When I try to enable persistence 0.556
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 27.251
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.826
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.368
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.271
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:59.671
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 8.924
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.113
When I try to enable persistence 0.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 33.480
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.113
When I log in to a new session 41.913
And all notifications have disappeared 8.548
# 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" 1.351
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.707
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.490
Then the Tor Browser starts 19.268
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:3.287
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 9.380
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.595
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.479
When I try to enable persistence 0.701
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 20.404
When I log in to a new session 49.643
And all notifications have disappeared 9.434
Then the Tor Browser starts 24.580
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 5.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000