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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4047 01 Nov 2025, 12:15

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 31:41.078 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:8.104
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 1:53.816
And I update APT using apt 6.865
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.307
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.441
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 12.278
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.152
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.316
And persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:16.341
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.991
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.394
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.605
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.578
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.047
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:30.366
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.203
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
36.691
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.488
And the system is very low on memory 5.008
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.432
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.686
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.175
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.512
And I free up some memory 1.042
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.757
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:9.668
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 12.488
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.413
And all tps features are active 2.049
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.031
When I disable the first tps feature 2.688
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.851
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.222
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.974
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
16.355
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 10.573
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I disable the first tps feature 2.809
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.506
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.978
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 9.947
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 2.709
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.099
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.299
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 9.999
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 13.037
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.599
When I write some files expected to persist 1.553
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.731
# 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" 17.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:19.521
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 9.964
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 10.717
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.724
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.908
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 12.261
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.414
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.065
Tags: @product
50.436
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.010
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.157
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.723
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:33.085
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 12.727
When I enable persistence 20.456
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.914
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.002
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.315
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
When I cold reboot the computer 10.273
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.904
Given I enable persistence 9.505
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.594
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.099
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:49.169
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 12.797
# 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 29.113
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.740
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:36.058
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
46.190
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 10.411
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.890
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.358
And all notifications have disappeared 10.175
When I delete the persistent partition 2.824
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.663
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 11.002
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.931
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.406
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
54.194
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 10.144
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.439
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.751
And all notifications have disappeared 9.972
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.320
And all tps features are enabled 2.188
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:58.397
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 5:16.181
And I enable persistence 27.914
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.551
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.679
And persistence is enabled 2.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.482
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 9.149
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.637
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.602
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 11.882
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.360
When I enable persistence 9.139
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.431
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 9.738
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.757
When I try to enable persistence 1.341
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.487
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.279
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.284
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.273
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 9.977
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.944
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I log in to a new session 12.848
And all notifications have disappeared 9.730
# 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" 0.202
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.510
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.284
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.892
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.748
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 9.851
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.979
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.700
When I log in to a new session 12.086
And all notifications have disappeared 9.475
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.867
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000