Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4036 25 Oct 2025, 11:58

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 33:27.314 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:59.511
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 1:40.430
And I update APT using apt 11.149
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.928
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.232
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 9.137
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.923
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.301
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:11.907
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 12.386
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.592
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.315
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:30.868
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.202
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
36.206
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.688
And the system is very low on memory 4.733
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.290
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.720
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.124
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.525
And I free up some memory 0.997
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.534
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.152
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 9.412
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.539
And all tps features are active 2.313
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.299
When I disable the first tps feature 2.625
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.215
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.021
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:35.536
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
15.444
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.683
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.782
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.507
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.079
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.118
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 3.242
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.074
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.118
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.220
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 11.065
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.696
When I write some files expected to persist 1.309
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.996
# 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" 17.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:20.742
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 9.732
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 10.787
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.162
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.013
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:35.985
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.078
And Tor is ready 12.162
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.453
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.087
Tags: @product
50.145
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 11.865
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.131
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.904
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:25.394
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.560
When I enable persistence 20.743
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.473
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.848
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.680
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
When I cold reboot the computer 5.727
And the computer reboots Tails 1:2.248
Given I enable persistence 12.788
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.622
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.391
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
2:45.415
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.312
# 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 27.788
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.283
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:38.550
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
47.288
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.624
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.635
Then persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.296
And all notifications have disappeared 10.435
When I delete the persistent partition 2.796
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.249
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 9.940
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.611
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.283
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
56.342
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.685
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.076
And all notifications have disappeared 9.776
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.398
And all tps features are enabled 2.605
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
8:11.920
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 7:29.568
And I enable persistence 28.608
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.653
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.789
And persistence is enabled 2.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.453
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 8.935
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.849
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.526
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.555
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.480
When I enable persistence 12.111
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.352
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.167
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.200
When I try to enable persistence 1.350
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.686
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.207
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.204
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.893
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.935
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.407
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.290
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I log in to a new session 11.946
And all notifications have disappeared 10.363
# 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" 0.230
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.890
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.311
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.983
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.936
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.405
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.568
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.457
When I log in to a new session 11.607
And all notifications have disappeared 9.118
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.078
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000