Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4076 16 Nov 2025, 12:44

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 33:23.411 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
2:11.192
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 1:56.559
And I update APT using apt 7.387
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.279
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.081
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.951
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.662
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:27.368
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 15.694
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.806
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.570
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.726
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:35.731
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.225
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
38.951
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 11.117
And the system is very low on memory 5.373
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.209
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.611
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.524
And I free up some memory 1.005
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.307
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:21.062
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 14.120
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.370
And all tps features are active 2.318
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.336
When I disable the first tps feature 3.124
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.020
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.848
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:42.772
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
17.657
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 11.285
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.119
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.089
When I disable the first tps feature 3.257
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.575
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.668
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 10.222
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 3.171
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.077
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.715
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 10.405
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 13.569
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.643
When I write some files expected to persist 1.368
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.367
# 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" 18.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:27.509
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 10.436
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 11.288
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.210
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.900
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.218
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 13.610
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.452
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.085
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
51.303
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 12.265
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.109
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.968
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:40.963
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 12.378
When I enable persistence 25.064
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.379
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.562
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.169
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
When I cold reboot the computer 7.215
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.513
Given I enable persistence 12.976
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.551
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.813
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:51.624
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 enabled and logged in 13.040
# 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 28.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.418
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:39.301
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
48.227
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 10.797
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.596
Then persistence is disabled 0.165
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.727
And all notifications have disappeared 10.613
When I delete the persistent partition 2.872
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:6.332
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 11.750
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.443
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:42.770
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
57.383
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 10.760
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.864
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.358
And all notifications have disappeared 10.109
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.345
And all tps features are enabled 2.483
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:17.749
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 5:29.765
And I enable persistence 32.474
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.546
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.736
And persistence is enabled 2.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.292
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 9.711
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.941
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.358
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.985
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.282
When I enable persistence 11.501
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.149
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 9.645
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.359
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.963
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.239
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.286
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.090
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 10.212
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.989
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I log in to a new session 11.738
And all notifications have disappeared 12.142
# 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" 0.208
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.539
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.401
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.962
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.729
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 10.115
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.484
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.475
When I try to enable persistence 1.380
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.336
When I log in to a new session 11.281
And all notifications have disappeared 9.964
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.537
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000