Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4052 04 Nov 2025, 12:39

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 33:14.421 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:15.040
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 1:56.253
And I update APT using apt 10.877
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.836
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.718
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 13.049
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.704
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
And persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:24.922
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 13.944
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.405
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.199
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.236
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.583
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.079
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.181
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.225
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
39.547
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 11.694
And the system is very low on memory 5.771
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.258
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.817
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.194
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.514
And I free up some memory 1.007
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.648
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:21.312
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 enabled and logged in 12.151
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.372
And all tps features are active 2.379
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.501
When I disable the first tps feature 3.230
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.016
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.359
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
16.116
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 10.040
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 2.905
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.077
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.069
When I enable the first tps feature 2.644
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.330
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 9.675
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.162
And I disable the first tps feature 3.168
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.186
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.742
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 9.924
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 13.528
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.604
When I write some files expected to persist 1.360
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.979
# 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" 18.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:23.236
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 enabled and logged in 9.932
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 11.265
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.170
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.027
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.412
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 12.643
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.377
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
Tags: @product
51.889
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.519
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.616
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:43.802
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 13.028
When I enable persistence 24.116
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.156
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.265
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.024
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.185
When I cold reboot the computer 12.307
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.911
Given I enable persistence 12.949
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.620
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.048
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
2:53.148
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 12.442
# 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 29.663
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.170
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:41.043
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
53.578
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 12.680
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.591
Then persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.497
And all notifications have disappeared 11.741
When I delete the persistent partition 3.494
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.793
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 13.203
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.076
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.139
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.047
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
59.186
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 12.330
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.109
When I try to enable persistence 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.281
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.539
And all notifications have disappeared 10.047
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.381
And all tps features are enabled 2.172
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:10.803
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 5:25.048
And I enable persistence 30.376
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.275
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.727
And persistence is enabled 2.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.103
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 9.285
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.097
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.003
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 10.848
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.516
When I enable persistence 9.233
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.928
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 9.905
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.472
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.309
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.253
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.229
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.540
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 10.095
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.674
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I log in to a new session 13.989
And all notifications have disappeared 10.136
# 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" 0.249
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.493
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.376
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.421
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 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.676
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 10.124
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.509
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.320
When I try to enable persistence 1.345
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.918
When I log in to a new session 12.918
And all notifications have disappeared 9.887
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.464
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000