Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4042 29 Oct 2025, 22:07

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 37:40.082 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.007
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 1:53.134
And I update APT using apt 8.255
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.486
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.069
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 12.942
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.234
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.724
And persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:36.515
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 12.793
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.461
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.175
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.238
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.634
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.877
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.591
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.675
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
43.184
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.625
And the system is very low on memory 6.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.391
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.848
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.154
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.512
And I free up some memory 1.147
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.799
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:27.946
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 13.012
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.413
And all tps features are active 2.484
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.436
When I disable the first tps feature 3.102
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.423
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.854
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:49.482
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
18.029
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 11.550
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.081
When I disable the first tps feature 3.145
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.592
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.283
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.993
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 10.885
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 3.168
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.733
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.285
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 10.962
And the network is plugged 0.090
And Tor is ready 14.162
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.721
When I write some files expected to persist 1.699
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.376
# 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" 21.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:34.930
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 11.152
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 11.515
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.514
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.295
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 14.400
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.439
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.096
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.090
Tags: @product
58.204
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.353
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 18.674
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:56.141
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 13.641
When I enable persistence 26.195
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.843
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.603
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.811
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.262
When I cold reboot the computer 11.049
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.362
Given I enable persistence 14.656
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.587
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.954
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
3:20.026
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 11.982
# 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 36.233
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.939
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:59.392
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
51.470
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 10.977
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.732
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.067
And all notifications have disappeared 10.519
When I delete the persistent partition 3.573
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.874
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 10.536
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.816
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.747
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:2.625
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 10.960
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.337
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.017
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.070
And all notifications have disappeared 10.923
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.423
And all tps features are enabled 2.604
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
8:39.219
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7:48.786
And I enable persistence 33.666
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.768
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.672
And persistence is enabled 2.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.340
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.889
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.665
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.112
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 12.543
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.333
When I enable persistence 14.594
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.341
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 11.180
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.893
When I try to enable persistence 1.672
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.626
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.338
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.429
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.553
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.349
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.691
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 10.138
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.375
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.036
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.361
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I log in to a new session 13.610
And all notifications have disappeared 11.814
# 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" 0.278
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.661
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.495
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.663
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.069
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.210
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.845
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.522
When I try to enable persistence 1.726
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.941
When I log in to a new session 13.718
And all notifications have disappeared 10.092
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.079
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000