Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5512 13 Mar 2025, 09:14

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 38:44.592 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:8.972
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:30.981
And I update APT using apt 13.014
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 22.420
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.496
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 10.608
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.323
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.621
And persistence is disabled 0.297
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:52.846
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 logged in 12.143
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.366
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.796
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.627
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.468
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.559
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.676
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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56.153
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 logged in 10.998
And the system is very low on memory 3.818
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.843
When I try to create a persistent partition 22.955
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.153
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.552
And I free up some memory 1.777
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.802
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:49.188
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 12.290
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.604
And all tps features are active 2.254
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.663
When I disable the first tps feature 6.881
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.962
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.556
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:8.049
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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21.411
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 11.014
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.092
When I disable the first tps feature 6.175
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.109
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 3.647
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.667
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 9.838
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 6.735
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.867
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.267
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 9.825
And the network is plugged 0.079
And Tor is ready 21.817
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.553
When I write some files expected to persist 1.358
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.456
# 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" 24.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:3.804
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 10.104
And the network is plugged 0.110
And Tor is ready 20.937
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.188
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.327
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.047
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 18.406
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
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52.364
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 11.592
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.106
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.209
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:30.263
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 11.463
When I enable persistence 38.506
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.238
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 31.478
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.615
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.517
When I cold reboot the computer 7.249
And the computer reboots Tails 59.743
Given I enable persistence 20.235
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.554
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 36.183
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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3:35.968
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 10.759
# 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 36.416
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.701
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:1.012
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 35.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
58.596
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 9.391
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.715
Then persistence is disabled 0.488
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.793
And all notifications have disappeared 11.956
When I delete the persistent partition 5.747
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:25.584
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 10.133
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.496
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:4.503
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:37.783
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 8.558
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 0.256
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 27.769
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.364
And all notifications have disappeared 7.530
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.098
And all tps features are enabled 2.161
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:40.377
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 3:12.027
And I enable persistence 36.460
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.721
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.400
And persistence is enabled 2.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.375
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 8.617
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.467
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.698
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 9.236
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.317
When I enable persistence 27.310
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.087
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
46.951
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 8.807
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.868
When I try to enable persistence 0.402
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.330
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.249
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 1.217
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.316
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:54.732
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 8.470
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.107
When I try to enable persistence 0.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 29.104
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I log in to a new session 46.437
And all notifications have disappeared 8.991
# 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" 0.451
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.740
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.449
Then the Tor Browser starts 16.546
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:52.089
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 8.798
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.723
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.537
When I try to enable persistence 0.390
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 18.445
When I log in to a new session 46.819
And all notifications have disappeared 8.580
Then the Tor Browser starts 22.037
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000