Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4037 27 Oct 2025, 21:32

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 37:9.838 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:13.936
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:55.196
And I update APT using apt 8.392
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.389
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.833
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 10.359
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.175
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.499
And persistence is disabled 0.164
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:31.740
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 13.057
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.422
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.653
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.625
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.127
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.970
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.696
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
41.032
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 10.549
And the system is very low on memory 6.432
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.561
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.064
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.134
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.596
And I free up some memory 0.996
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.844
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:21.434
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 10.302
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.352
And all tps features are active 3.145
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.828
When I disable the first tps feature 3.253
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.493
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.157
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.223
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
16.996
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 10.124
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.157
When I disable the first tps feature 3.497
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.161
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.114
When I enable the first tps feature 2.616
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.269
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 10.299
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
And I disable the first tps feature 3.422
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.287
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.426
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 10.271
And the network is plugged 0.094
And Tor is ready 14.309
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.740
When I write some files expected to persist 1.342
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.877
# 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" 19.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:31.767
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 10.400
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 11.956
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.260
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.583
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 12.495
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.466
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.060
Tags: @product
56.830
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.636
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.132
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.521
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:42.793
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 11.520
When I enable persistence 24.478
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.121
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.578
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.936
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
When I cold reboot the computer 10.179
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.356
Given I enable persistence 13.910
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.603
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.793
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product
3:2.641
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 10.918
# 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 35.342
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.794
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:44.377
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
50.739
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 9.855
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.539
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.392
And all notifications have disappeared 11.471
When I delete the persistent partition 2.956
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.265
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 12.553
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.110
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.855
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
1:5.996
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 13.345
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.155
When I try to enable persistence 1.516
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.931
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.411
And all notifications have disappeared 10.746
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.948
And all tps features are enabled 2.748
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
9:4.341
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8:16.290
And I enable persistence 32.102
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.899
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.649
And persistence is enabled 2.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.510
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.027
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 10.324
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.465
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.193
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 11.322
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.660
When I enable persistence 14.555
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.689
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 10.445
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.454
When I try to enable persistence 1.756
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.704
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.352
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.327
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.344
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.474
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 9.921
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.090
When I try to enable persistence 1.383
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.217
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 14.308
And all notifications have disappeared 10.820
# 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" 0.248
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.601
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.362
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.917
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.924
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 11.113
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.795
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.420
When I try to enable persistence 1.419
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 6.075
When I log in to a new session 12.803
And all notifications have disappeared 11.018
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.234
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000