Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5731 23 Jun 2025, 12:49

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 41:55.210 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
2:28.293
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 1:42.418
And I update APT using apt 16.862
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.399
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.223
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 12.375
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.768
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.431
And persistence is disabled 0.353
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:17.752
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 14.221
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.466
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.029
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.104
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.786
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.924
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.937
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
58.517
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 11.389
And the system is very low on memory 3.271
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.811
When I try to create a persistent partition 21.826
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.503
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.844
And I free up some memory 3.479
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.120
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:6.190
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 13.397
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406
And all tps features are active 3.107
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.939
When I disable the first tps feature 5.896
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.666
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.920
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:21.640
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
20.422
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 11.272
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.129
When I disable the first tps feature 5.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.064
When I enable the first tps feature 3.080
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.596
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 10.012
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.105
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I disable the first tps feature 5.692
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.636
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.186
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 9.420
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 22.206
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.634
When I write some files expected to persist 1.753
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.539
# 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" 26.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:13.161
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 10.138
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 15.774
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.266
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.668
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:16.679
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.068
And Tor is ready 20.973
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.308
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.110
Tags: @product
1:4.648
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.741
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.371
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.053
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:33.489
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 13.082
When I enable persistence 37.225
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.923
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 26.418
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.822
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.486
When I cold reboot the computer 7.559
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.023
Given I enable persistence 18.533
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.532
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 41.431
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
3:59.433
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.050
# 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 36.510
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.544
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:18.293
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 40.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 4.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
Tags: @product
59.259
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 10.817
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.563
Then persistence is disabled 0.497
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.593
And all notifications have disappeared 9.432
When I delete the persistent partition 8.398
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:37.075
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 10.338
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.110
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.056
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:17.133
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.075
Tags: @product
1:49.223
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 9.652
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.104
When I try to enable persistence 0.381
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 31.261
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 49.486
And all notifications have disappeared 8.721
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.487
And all tps features are enabled 3.019
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:41.858
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 3:16.203
And I enable persistence 34.371
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 45.128
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.346
And persistence is enabled 2.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.742
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 9.771
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.260
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.772
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 10.010
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.612
When I enable persistence 28.996
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.082
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.081
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 9.420
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.582
When I try to enable persistence 0.405
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.746
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 5.135
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.297
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.617
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.215
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:5.611
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 10.345
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.126
When I try to enable persistence 0.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 30.551
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.487
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.082
When I log in to a new session 44.743
And all notifications have disappeared 10.464
# 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" 0.435
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.486
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.552
Then the Tor Browser starts 23.932
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:3.672
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 10.085
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.738
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.773
When I try to enable persistence 0.404
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 21.698
When I log in to a new session 51.718
And all notifications have disappeared 9.437
Then the Tor Browser starts 20.301
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000