Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4048 02 Nov 2025, 12:12

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 33:12.896 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
2:12.229
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 1:56.996
And I update APT using apt 7.603
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.353
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.718
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 12.496
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.081
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.330
And persistence is disabled 0.180
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:23.783
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 13.417
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.467
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.106
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.786
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.588
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.993
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:36.164
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.193
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
37.924
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 10.817
And the system is very low on memory 5.224
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.244
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.373
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.198
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.499
And I free up some memory 1.014
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.005
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:18.086
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 12.997
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.370
And all tps features are active 2.398
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.326
When I disable the first tps feature 2.727
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.976
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.625
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.509
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
17.040
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 10.694
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I disable the first tps feature 3.202
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.641
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.312
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 9.983
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.130
And I disable the first tps feature 2.919
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.115
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.021
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 10.229
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 13.127
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.563
When I write some files expected to persist 1.371
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.885
# 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" 17.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:25.937
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 10.351
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 11.061
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.154
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.871
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.037
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 12.548
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.466
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.111
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
Tags: @product
50.179
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 12.436
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 16.543
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:51.273
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 13.069
When I enable persistence 22.024
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.228
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.053
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.973
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.210
When I cold reboot the computer 10.903
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.689
Given I enable persistence 22.580
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.579
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.788
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:55.700
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 12.714
# 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 34.320
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.648
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:39.287
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
50.376
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 12.523
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.829
Then persistence is disabled 0.168
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.148
And all notifications have disappeared 10.331
When I delete the persistent partition 2.965
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:7.076
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 11.160
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.131
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.041
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
58.768
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 10.571
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.464
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.477
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.486
And all notifications have disappeared 9.721
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.575
And all tps features are enabled 2.423
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:5.496
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 5:18.847
And I enable persistence 30.351
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.299
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.662
And persistence is enabled 2.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.310
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.910
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.729
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.331
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 11.932
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.416
When I enable persistence 9.354
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.541
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 11.133
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.614
When I try to enable persistence 1.392
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.208
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.258
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.292
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.552
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 10.472
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.318
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.207
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.313
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I log in to a new session 13.466
And all notifications have disappeared 10.427
# 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" 0.258
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.550
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.285
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.914
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.235
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 10.150
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.312
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.450
When I try to enable persistence 1.368
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.120
When I log in to a new session 11.396
And all notifications have disappeared 10.158
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.958
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000