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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4057 06 Nov 2025, 09:48

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 34:51.684 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:20.846
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:1.339
And I update APT using apt 8.902
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.517
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.030
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 13.372
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.696
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.674
And persistence is disabled 0.192
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:30.489
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 14.348
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.515
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.176
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.948
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.566
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 1:39.470
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.220
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
43.538
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 12.238
And the system is very low on memory 5.432
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.347
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.328
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.165
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.657
And I free up some memory 1.174
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.485
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:23.558
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 13.210
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.417
And all tps features are active 2.829
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.827
When I disable the first tps feature 2.912
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.332
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.808
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.508
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
19.601
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 12.594
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 3.233
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.098
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.087
When I enable the first tps feature 3.178
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.621
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 10.321
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I disable the first tps feature 3.212
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.844
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.187
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 10.179
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 14.175
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.856
When I write some files expected to persist 1.516
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.414
# 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" 19.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:0.862
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 10.642
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 42.652
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.300
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.817
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.965
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 12.644
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.447
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
52.068
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 12.849
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.117
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.277
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:49.165
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 14.531
When I enable persistence 19.679
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.252
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.018
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.704
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.206
When I cold reboot the computer 10.990
And the computer reboots Tails 1:9.481
Given I enable persistence 12.674
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.496
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.953
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
2:54.912
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 15.211
# 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 28.372
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.580
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:40.975
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
52.424
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 12.446
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.862
Then persistence is disabled 0.167
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.269
And all notifications have disappeared 11.028
When I delete the persistent partition 3.182
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:10.576
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 12.580
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.075
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.425
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:46.235
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
58.368
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 11.075
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.401
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.812
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.069
And all notifications have disappeared 9.935
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.628
And all tps features are enabled 2.458
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:16.750
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 5:30.173
And I enable persistence 30.588
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.057
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.649
And persistence is enabled 2.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.171
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 9.574
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.873
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.905
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 11.987
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.662
When I enable persistence 11.707
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.879
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 9.899
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.625
When I try to enable persistence 1.384
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.536
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.282
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.226
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.531
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 10.162
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.353
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.014
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.330
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 13.283
And all notifications have disappeared 11.566
# 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" 0.272
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.493
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.418
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.989
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.193
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 10.616
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.642
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.437
When I try to enable persistence 1.458
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.102
When I log in to a new session 13.485
And all notifications have disappeared 9.520
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.604
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000