Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5749 29 Jun 2025, 12:46

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 39:27.693 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:17.761
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 1:37.450
And I update APT using apt 13.879
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 23.356
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 3.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.610
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 10.820
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.158
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.512
And persistence is disabled 0.445
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:10.775
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.029
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 13.502
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.373
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.033
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.176
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.550
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.582
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.316
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:8.397
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 11.440
And the system is very low on memory 4.229
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 2.163
When I try to create a persistent partition 30.282
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.201
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.568
And I free up some memory 3.473
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.563
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:54.593
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 13.198
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.599
And all tps features are active 2.340
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.465
When I disable the first tps feature 5.989
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.299
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.433
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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19.243
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 9.821
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I disable the first tps feature 5.745
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.134
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.065
When I enable the first tps feature 3.082
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.069
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 9.273
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I disable the first tps feature 6.163
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.188
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.668
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 9.532
And the network is plugged 0.116
And Tor is ready 20.542
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.579
When I write some files expected to persist 1.551
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.651
# 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" 24.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.599
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 9.659
And the network is plugged 0.206
And Tor is ready 19.605
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.244
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.527
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:15.621
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.080
And Tor is ready 21.075
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.326
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.114
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
56.486
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.893
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.164
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.701
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:16.247
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 11.498
When I enable persistence 35.089
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.386
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.044
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.938
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.577
When I cold reboot the computer 7.285
And the computer reboots Tails 1:1.226
Given I enable persistence 17.343
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.612
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.667
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
3:45.938
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 9.682
# 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 39.169
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.084
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:6.924
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 37.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
56.199
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 9.833
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.604
Then persistence is disabled 0.422
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.763
And all notifications have disappeared 9.305
When I delete the persistent partition 6.461
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.979
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 10.075
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.694
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:11.797
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:38.495
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 8.639
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 0.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 30.005
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 42.294
And all notifications have disappeared 7.451
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.858
And all tps features are enabled 2.929
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:16.739
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:53.604
And I enable persistence 31.007
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.608
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.649
And persistence is enabled 2.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.710
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.961
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.995
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.411
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 9.293
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.944
When I enable persistence 26.520
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.122
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.904
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 9.340
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.375
When I try to enable persistence 0.451
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 26.773
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.848
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.014
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.497
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.257
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:51.560
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 8.926
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.151
When I try to enable persistence 0.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 32.460
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I log in to a new session 36.328
And all notifications have disappeared 7.125
# 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" 0.728
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.267
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.379
Then the Tor Browser starts 21.563
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:54.296
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 8.925
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.656
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.648
When I try to enable persistence 0.394
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 19.121
When I log in to a new session 50.184
And all notifications have disappeared 8.529
Then the Tor Browser starts 18.378
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000