Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4053 05 Nov 2025, 09:13

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 32:57.964 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:28.196
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 2:12.583
And I update APT using apt 7.917
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.357
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.440
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 13.296
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.855
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.351
And persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:24.866
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 13.921
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.399
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.121
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.490
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.644
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.181
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.824
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.226
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
38.290
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.680
And the system is very low on memory 5.365
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.299
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.720
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.149
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.538
And I free up some memory 1.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.807
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:19.501
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 11.958
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.458
And all tps features are active 2.341
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.417
When I disable the first tps feature 3.261
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.026
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.117
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.769
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
16.818
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 9.675
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.177
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.175
When I disable the first tps feature 3.291
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.086
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 3.103
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.402
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 9.342
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.110
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 3.568
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.259
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.872
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 9.565
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 14.378
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.596
When I write some files expected to persist 1.353
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.113
# 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" 18.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:28.830
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 9.633
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 11.591
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.898
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.017
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 12.702
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.428
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.096
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
54.159
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.116
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.120
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.616
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:42.133
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 13.103
When I enable persistence 20.762
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.072
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.517
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.909
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 10.653
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.226
Given I enable persistence 12.528
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.584
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.415
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:53.010
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 11.950
# 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 28.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.334
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:37.853
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
49.203
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.390
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.475
Then persistence is disabled 0.134
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.591
And all notifications have disappeared 11.202
When I delete the persistent partition 2.968
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:6.439
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 10.506
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.190
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.304
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:2.831
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 13.275
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.371
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.117
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.360
And all notifications have disappeared 9.734
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.940
And all tps features are enabled 2.473
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:27.240
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 4:42.090
And I enable persistence 29.418
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.817
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.668
And persistence is enabled 2.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.214
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 9.193
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.228
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.683
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 11.301
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.666
When I enable persistence 11.865
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.055
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 9.912
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.739
When I try to enable persistence 1.395
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.841
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.255
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.075
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.304
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.572
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.005
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.216
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I log in to a new session 12.342
And all notifications have disappeared 10.979
# 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" 0.229
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.529
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.477
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.944
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.199
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 10.387
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.458
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.577
When I try to enable persistence 1.340
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.250
When I log in to a new session 11.914
And all notifications have disappeared 9.758
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.462
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000