Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4058 06 Nov 2025, 14:01

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 35:0.124 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:13.263
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:57.847
And I update APT using apt 8.058
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.295
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.133
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 13.426
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.437
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:17.608
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 13.035
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.405
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.095
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.593
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.467
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:33.540
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.285
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
38.668
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 11.438
And the system is very low on memory 5.464
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.255
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.497
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.183
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.545
And I free up some memory 1.053
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.612
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:18.506
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 12.657
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.481
And all tps features are active 2.291
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.312
When I disable the first tps feature 3.138
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.170
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.772
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.538
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product
18.008
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 11.869
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 3.112
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.544
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.868
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 12.383
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.132
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I disable the first tps feature 3.129
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.054
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.282
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 10.450
And the network is plugged 0.099
And Tor is ready 13.522
And I take note of which tps features are available 1.350
When I write some files expected to persist 1.555
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.924
# 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" 18.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:59.895
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 10.582
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 41.135
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.177
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.871
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.746
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 13.575
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.413
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
53.374
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.226
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.131
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.674
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:36.865
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 13.143
When I enable persistence 21.275
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.207
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.443
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.777
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.225
When I cold reboot the computer 7.528
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.094
Given I enable persistence 12.289
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.513
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.152
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:57.360
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 14.111
# 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 29.287
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.094
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:39.788
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
52.478
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 11.489
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.194
Then persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.333
And all notifications have disappeared 11.397
When I delete the persistent partition 3.426
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:1.545
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 11.266
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.081
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.072
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:41.790
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
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1:4.313
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 12.494
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.421
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 21.009
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.412
And all notifications have disappeared 9.782
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.806
And all tps features are enabled 3.054
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:30.042
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 5:44.486
And I enable persistence 29.673
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.595
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.728
And persistence is enabled 2.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.800
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 10.316
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.884
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.853
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 12.938
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 17.555
When I enable persistence 35.299
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.802
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 12.572
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.898
When I try to enable persistence 1.479
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.623
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.329
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.306
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.307
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.392
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 11.051
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.424
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.275
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.451
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I log in to a new session 14.617
And all notifications have disappeared 10.264
# 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" 0.214
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.559
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.624
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.561
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.058
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 11.818
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.109
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.442
When I try to enable persistence 1.453
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.112
When I log in to a new session 13.855
And all notifications have disappeared 11.127
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.908
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000