Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4040 29 Oct 2025, 09:10

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 36:47.276 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.012
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:46.906
And I update APT using apt 8.585
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.282
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.908
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.920
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.933
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.469
And persistence is disabled 0.199
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:48.909
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 12.341
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.400
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.150
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.938
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 8.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.036
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:45.577
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.358
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
48.339
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 15.746
And the system is very low on memory 5.696
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.265
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.441
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.156
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.565
And I free up some memory 0.950
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.891
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:20.584
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 10.270
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.369
And all tps features are active 3.218
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.716
When I disable the first tps feature 3.135
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.193
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.165
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:41.124
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
17.275
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 10.316
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 3.227
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.121
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 3.160
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.186
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 9.837
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 3.377
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.777
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.140
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 10.384
And the network is plugged 0.140
And Tor is ready 14.177
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.720
When I write some files expected to persist 1.672
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.994
# 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" 19.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:31.458
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.047
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 12.095
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.201
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.020
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:41.597
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 3.950
And Tor is ready 11.470
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.418
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.142
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.070
Tags: @product
55.395
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.765
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.165
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.396
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:44.737
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 12.137
When I enable persistence 22.932
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.552
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.557
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.268
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
When I cold reboot the computer 9.992
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.703
Given I enable persistence 13.943
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.556
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.799
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product
2:54.187
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 10.619
# 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 29.883
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.541
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:44.179
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
48.994
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 10.320
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.549
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.862
And all notifications have disappeared 10.779
When I delete the persistent partition 2.878
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:3.299
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 10.446
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.096
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.338
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:41.149
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
58.916
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 10.009
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.622
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.048
And all notifications have disappeared 10.317
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.499
And all tps features are enabled 2.828
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
8:44.288
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 7:59.410
And I enable persistence 28.697
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.043
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.688
And persistence is enabled 2.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.243
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 9.930
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.637
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.019
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 10.238
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.873
When I enable persistence 13.269
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.936
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 9.964
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.989
When I try to enable persistence 1.417
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.402
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.343
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.388
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.730
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.391
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.988
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 9.871
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.110
When I try to enable persistence 1.396
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 1.375
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I log in to a new session 14.013
And all notifications have disappeared 10.843
# 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" 0.277
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.651
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.889
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.192
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.452
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 9.517
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.953
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.465
When I try to enable persistence 1.498
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.333
When I log in to a new session 13.842
And all notifications have disappeared 9.349
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.299
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000