Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4077 17 Nov 2025, 13:11

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 45:20.371 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:22.005
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:6.475
And I update APT using apt 7.944
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.325
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.164
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 14.290
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.956
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
And persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:39.913
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 15.491
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.409
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.302
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.854
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.600
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:46.816
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.252
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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44.632
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 13.060
And the system is very low on memory 4.779
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.261
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.710
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.591
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.873
And I free up some memory 2.055
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.317
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:1.227
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 13.986
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.462
And all tps features are active 2.393
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.282
When I disable the first tps feature 23.790
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.193
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.950
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:58.572
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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18.778
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.847
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 2.833
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 3.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.718
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 10.771
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I disable the first tps feature 4.335
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.381
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.360
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.031
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.064
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 16.412
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.785
When I write some files expected to persist 1.389
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.576
# 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" 20.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:42.198
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 10.568
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 12.202
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.165
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.024
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:53.790
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 13.608
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.373
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.135
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
Tags: @product
58.209
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.369
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.142
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.429
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:50.882
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 13.627
When I enable persistence 25.942
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.957
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.970
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.878
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.242
When I cold reboot the computer 8.767
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.278
Given I enable persistence 13.136
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.687
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.943
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
3:5.912
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 14.474
# 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 30.260
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.026
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:48.430
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
54.226
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 12.633
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.347
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.236
And all notifications have disappeared 11.089
When I delete the persistent partition 4.301
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.850
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 11.440
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.961
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:51.049
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:18.551
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 12.760
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.423
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.334
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.908
And all notifications have disappeared 9.961
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.432
And all tps features are enabled 16.439
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14:19.126
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 13:32.559
And I enable persistence 30.570
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.528
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.809
And persistence is enabled 2.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.335
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.391
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.246
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.641
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 44.611
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.729
When I enable persistence 14.295
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.321
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 10.342
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 29.533
When I try to enable persistence 1.506
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.778
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.311
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.238
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.313
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:5.165
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.048
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.506
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.107
When I try to enable persistence 1.412
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 17.594
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I log in to a new session 15.735
And all notifications have disappeared 10.852
# 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" 0.512
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.164
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.360
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.496
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:3.148
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 10.610
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.022
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.394
When I try to enable persistence 1.427
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.180
When I log in to a new session 14.094
And all notifications have disappeared 12.404
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.689
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000