Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4082 21 Nov 2025, 12:40

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 41:25.086 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:36.182
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:20.664
And I update APT using apt 7.997
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.357
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.675
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 14.726
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.531
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.380
And persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:44.510
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 14.800
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.516
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.137
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 32.161
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.660
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.376
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:45.192
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.609
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
42.430
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 10.479
And the system is very low on memory 6.996
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.293
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.713
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.144
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.566
And I free up some memory 1.136
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.466
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:29.745
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 14.265
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.440
And all tps features are active 2.456
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.334
When I disable the first tps feature 2.773
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.015
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.651
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:50.414
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
18.499
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 11.662
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 3.129
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 3.184
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.132
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.738
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 10.622
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 3.210
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.692
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.030
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.645
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 15.929
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.616
When I write some files expected to persist 1.370
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.914
# 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" 19.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:32.832
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 11.134
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 11.843
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.793
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:45.141
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 12.901
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.471
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
56.735
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 14.321
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.118
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.531
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:56.210
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 14.307
When I enable persistence 26.177
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.082
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.038
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.707
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
When I cold reboot the computer 12.454
And the computer reboots Tails 1:9.065
Given I enable persistence 12.731
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.857
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.410
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:28.234
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 13.054
# 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 39.512
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.478
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:58.045
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:20.470
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 24.404
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.866
Then persistence is disabled 0.146
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.208
And all notifications have disappeared 11.614
When I delete the persistent partition 10.779
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:47.766
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 11.832
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.680
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:24.504
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:20.805
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 20.710
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.387
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.238
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.207
And all notifications have disappeared 9.797
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.987
And all tps features are enabled 10.290
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
10:0.744
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 9:10.392
And I enable persistence 34.023
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.024
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.805
And persistence is enabled 2.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.275
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 10.540
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.965
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.744
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 14.272
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.163
When I enable persistence 13.574
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.057
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.766
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.467
When I try to enable persistence 1.448
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.464
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.299
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.783
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.094
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.391
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:4.517
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 11.530
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.416
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 15.466
And all notifications have disappeared 11.487
# 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" 0.319
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.761
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.327
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.182
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.876
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 10.994
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.314
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.473
When I log in to a new session 14.359
And all notifications have disappeared 10.927
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.822
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000