Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4054 05 Nov 2025, 12:36

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 40:16.026 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:22.848
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 2:3.178
And I update APT using apt 9.214
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.371
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.651
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 24.711
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.166
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
And persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 18.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:25.269
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 23.289
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.545
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 30.492
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.622
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.819
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:4.574
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.686
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
1:51.964
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 1:4.073
And the system is very low on memory 6.616
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.350
When I try to create a persistent partition 8.811
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 1.528
When I close the Persistent Storage app 4.054
And I free up some memory 4.245
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.317
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:54.368
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 14.350
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.375
And all tps features are active 21.899
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.671
When I disable the first tps feature 3.301
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.785
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.180
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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18.513
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 12.093
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.154
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.087
When I disable the first tps feature 3.223
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.088
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.517
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 11.249
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.127
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.191
And I disable the first tps feature 5.579
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 7.314
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.816
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 13.549
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 14.876
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.839
When I write some files expected to persist 1.542
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.663
# 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" 20.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:55.600
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 18.607
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 12.170
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.162
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.851
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:1.669
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 12.577
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.875
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.191
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.083
Tags: @product
56.766
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 14.082
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 18.864
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:4.965
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 16.489
When I enable persistence 29.801
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.272
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.929
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.107
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
When I cold reboot the computer 11.812
And the computer reboots Tails 1:10.704
Given I enable persistence 14.462
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.521
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.501
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
3:3.004
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 13.438
# 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 30.564
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.682
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:48.746
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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54.376
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 11.644
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.636
Then persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.819
And all notifications have disappeared 11.066
When I delete the persistent partition 4.441
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:17.424
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.462
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.035
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:52.084
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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1:5.408
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 10.619
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 2.428
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.074
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.770
And all notifications have disappeared 9.708
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.342
And all tps features are enabled 3.750
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:29.735
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 6:37.902
And I enable persistence 34.172
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.295
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.767
And persistence is enabled 3.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.032
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.208
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.961
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.222
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 14.077
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.420
When I enable persistence 12.896
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.079
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.380
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 11.000
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.362
When I try to enable persistence 1.476
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.296
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.234
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.231
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.682
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 11.175
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.139
When I try to enable persistence 1.416
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.543
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I log in to a new session 14.146
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" 0.261
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.596
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.310
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.053
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:3.476
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 10.594
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.392
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.431
When I try to enable persistence 1.388
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.150
When I log in to a new session 14.394
And all notifications have disappeared 10.540
Then the Tor Browser starts 5.245
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000