Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4061 08 Nov 2025, 12:03

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 33:12.128 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
2:17.177
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 1:55.833
And I update APT using apt 13.472
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.820
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.565
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 14.405
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.564
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:23.964
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 13.750
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.391
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.117
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.542
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.574
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.884
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:35.386
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.259
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
38.793
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 logged in 10.795
And the system is very low on memory 5.583
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.329
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.725
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.161
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.546
And I free up some memory 1.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.992
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:17.618
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 13.044
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.467
And all tps features are active 2.215
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.683
When I disable the first tps feature 3.199
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.626
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:41.948
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
16.929
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 enabled and logged in 10.858
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.824
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 2.728
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.910
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 10.433
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 2.678
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.611
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.358
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 10.523
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 14.664
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.741
When I write some files expected to persist 1.445
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.001
# 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" 17.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:20.111
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 10.704
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 10.922
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 8.193
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:35.973
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 13.361
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.418
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
Tags: @product
52.534
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 12.602
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.114
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.923
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:36.000
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 12.509
When I enable persistence 19.597
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.930
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.260
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.025
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
When I cold reboot the computer 10.419
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.091
Given I enable persistence 12.353
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.553
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.918
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:59.388
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 12.906
# 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 31.522
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.029
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:39.583
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
50.541
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 10.887
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.048
Then persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.298
And all notifications have disappeared 10.620
When I delete the persistent partition 3.033
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:2.867
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 enabled and logged in 11.897
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.645
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.459
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
Tags: @product
57.339
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 11.181
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.721
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.226
And all notifications have disappeared 9.680
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.492
And all tps features are enabled 2.563
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:5.637
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 5:20.658
And I enable persistence 29.621
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.373
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.691
And persistence is enabled 2.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.131
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 9.112
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.375
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.540
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 12.503
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.089
When I enable persistence 10.306
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.350
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 10.967
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.297
When I try to enable persistence 1.480
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.444
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.289
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.286
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.023
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 11.726
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.345
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.923
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I log in to a new session 12.557
And all notifications have disappeared 10.738
# 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" 0.262
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.534
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.442
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.856
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.342
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 11.416
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.709
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.322
When I try to enable persistence 2.375
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.117
When I log in to a new session 12.892
And all notifications have disappeared 9.676
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.470
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000