Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4049 03 Nov 2025, 09:35

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 39:42.092 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:23.187
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 2:5.159
And I update APT using apt 7.143
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.657
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.580
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 13.430
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.473
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.349
And persistence is disabled 0.251
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:39.407
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 15.177
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.384
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.161
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.686
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.654
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.169
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.544
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.567
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
41.031
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 11.385
And the system is very low on memory 5.330
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.282
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.939
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.177
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.621
And I free up some memory 1.076
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.629
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:28.004
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 14.361
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.486
And all tps features are active 2.380
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.466
When I disable the first tps feature 3.262
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.417
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.136
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:46.479
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
Tags: @product
19.040
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 enabled and logged in 11.444
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.101
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I disable the first tps feature 3.309
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.104
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 3.680
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.020
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 15.059
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.201
And I disable the first tps feature 3.293
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.248
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.039
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 9.762
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 14.536
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.757
When I write some files expected to persist 1.386
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.555
# 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" 19.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:37.993
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 9.807
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 14.099
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.010
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.300
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 13.759
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.438
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.071
Tags: @product
56.639
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 13.491
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.100
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.862
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:10.366
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 13.804
When I enable persistence 31.497
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.603
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.753
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 38.914
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.201
When I cold reboot the computer 11.781
And the computer reboots Tails 1:9.344
Given I enable persistence 13.037
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.611
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.655
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:4.074
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 13.297
# 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 32.926
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.378
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:43.947
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.161
Tags: @product
53.534
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.042
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.064
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.277
Then persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.574
And all notifications have disappeared 12.125
When I delete the persistent partition 2.926
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:10.097
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 13.153
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.133
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.623
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:47.470
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:15.673
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 11.305
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.343
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.024
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 15.101
And all notifications have disappeared 12.425
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.657
And all tps features are enabled 10.595
And all tps features but the first one are active 3.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
10:6.327
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 9:10.782
And I enable persistence 37.990
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.243
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.756
And persistence is enabled 2.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.512
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.638
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 27.167
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.056
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 11.394
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.982
When I enable persistence 13.770
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.649
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 10.103
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.895
When I try to enable persistence 1.356
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.920
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.282
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.305
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.257
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 10.254
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.217
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.320
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I log in to a new session 15.090
And all notifications have disappeared 12.262
# 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" 0.261
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.637
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.344
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.168
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.596
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 10.262
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.341
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.307
When I try to enable persistence 1.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.666
When I log in to a new session 13.788
And all notifications have disappeared 10.574
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.981
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000