Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4045 31 Oct 2025, 10:04

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 37:22.795 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:14.204
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 1:54.283
And I update APT using apt 9.533
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.361
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.359
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 10.837
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.274
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:28.295
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 13.574
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.390
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.932
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.562
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.844
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.486
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.262
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
39.538
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 10.811
And the system is very low on memory 5.143
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.238
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.940
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.162
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.612
And I free up some memory 0.983
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.865
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:20.290
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 10.736
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.375
And all tps features are active 3.225
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.620
When I disable the first tps feature 3.261
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.600
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.505
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:42.940
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
18.060
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 10.628
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 3.773
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 3.149
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.398
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 10.284
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I disable the first tps feature 3.243
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.575
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.771
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 10.400
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 14.481
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.933
When I write some files expected to persist 1.365
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.588
# 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" 19.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:34.033
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 enabled and logged in 10.605
And the network is plugged 0.113
And Tor is ready 13.754
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.203
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.084
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.772
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.095
And Tor is ready 13.624
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.408
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.080
Tags: @product
55.667
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.657
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.105
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.916
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:43.493
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 10.926
When I enable persistence 23.259
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.629
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.099
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.217
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.193
When I cold reboot the computer 9.761
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.399
Given I enable persistence 14.201
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.611
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.696
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
3:24.359
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 10.701
# 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 38.263
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.593
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:2.045
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
51.861
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 10.276
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.670
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.815
And all notifications have disappeared 11.117
When I delete the persistent partition 3.422
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.489
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 11.075
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.487
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:45.076
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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1:1.039
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 10.238
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.159
When I try to enable persistence 1.402
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.184
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.883
And all notifications have disappeared 10.206
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.912
And all tps features are enabled 2.701
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
9:2.328
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 8:14.884
And I enable persistence 31.178
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.168
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.681
And persistence is enabled 2.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.396
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 10.393
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.202
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.023
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 10.691
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.003
When I enable persistence 15.778
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.755
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 10.092
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.720
When I try to enable persistence 1.386
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.019
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.336
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.383
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.088
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.344
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.614
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 9.235
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.658
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.306
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.419
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I log in to a new session 15.543
And all notifications have disappeared 10.657
# 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" 0.340
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.541
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.399
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.184
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.813
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 9.717
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.741
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.434
When I try to enable persistence 1.388
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.141
When I log in to a new session 13.634
And all notifications have disappeared 10.153
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.372
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000