Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_test-suite-options 22 08 Jul 2025, 05:59

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 42:48.327 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:22.874
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 1:39.068
And I update APT using apt 15.375
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 26.277
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.292
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 13.161
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.283
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.641
And persistence is disabled 0.518
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:25.973
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.059
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 14.263
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.701
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.146
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.440
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 2.762
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.967
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:31.264
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.268
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:3.815
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.898
And the system is very low on memory 3.250
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.105
When I try to create a persistent partition 27.292
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.168
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.563
And I free up some memory 3.445
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.794
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 2.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:4.006
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 13.886
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.516
And all tps features are active 2.966
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.641
When I disable the first tps feature 7.118
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.599
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.685
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:18.172
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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21.223
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 10.625
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.142
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.164
When I disable the first tps feature 5.869
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.081
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 3.948
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.187
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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20.293
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 9.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 6.062
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.535
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.810
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 9.911
And the network is plugged 0.130
And Tor is ready 21.703
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.693
When I write some files expected to persist 2.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.913
# 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" 26.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:21.799
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 11.177
And the network is plugged 0.117
And Tor is ready 18.589
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.859
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:22.797
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.094
And Tor is ready 19.328
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.358
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.130
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
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1:2.155
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.842
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.146
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.898
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:51.677
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 12.188
When I enable persistence 41.934
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.096
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 25.314
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 52.084
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.557
When I cold reboot the computer 10.435
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.571
Given I enable persistence 18.077
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.600
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.143
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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4:8.193
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 10.684
# 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 41.340
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.590
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:19.449
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 43.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
59.458
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 10.051
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.827
Then persistence is disabled 0.424
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.954
And all notifications have disappeared 8.622
When I delete the persistent partition 6.435
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.200
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 10.388
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.649
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:9.107
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:46.219
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.217
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.086
When I try to enable persistence 0.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 34.182
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 43.554
And all notifications have disappeared 7.977
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 4.877
And all tps features are enabled 2.591
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:34.253
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 3:3.394
And I enable persistence 37.939
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 47.895
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.992
And persistence is enabled 3.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.031
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
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 9.000
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.195
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.211
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 24.308
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.380
When I enable persistence 36.064
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.110
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.210
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 9.698
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.751
When I try to enable persistence 0.433
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 25.968
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 2.958
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.498
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 3.783
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.285
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 1.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:7.744
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 9.219
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.483
When I try to enable persistence 0.608
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 36.843
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.245
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.161
When I log in to a new session 40.438
And all notifications have disappeared 9.449
# 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" 0.711
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.720
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.544
Then the Tor Browser starts 25.264
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
2:14.882
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 9.986
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.686
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.822
When I try to enable persistence 0.490
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 25.440
When I log in to a new session 51.404
And all notifications have disappeared 10.889
Then the Tor Browser starts 26.180
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:330 3.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000