Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4083 22 Nov 2025, 12:09

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 30:24.995 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.185
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 1:49.952
And I update APT using apt 5.945
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.320
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.171
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 12.158
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.335
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:12.705
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 11.914
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.325
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.117
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.471
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.518
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.589
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:34.469
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.225
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
34.397
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 10.390
And the system is very low on memory 0.990
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.217
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.554
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.131
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.586
And I free up some memory 0.972
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.004
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:12.256
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 12.810
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.365
And all tps features are active 2.235
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.225
When I disable the first tps feature 2.605
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.997
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.871
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.070
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
15.497
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 9.957
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.081
When I disable the first tps feature 2.598
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.430
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.674
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.523
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.021
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.733
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 10.046
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 10.125
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.579
When I write some files expected to persist 1.356
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.707
# 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" 18.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:27.690
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 16.473
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 9.092
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.167
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.521
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.099
And I capture all network traffic 0.032
And the network is plugged 0.105
And Tor is ready 13.512
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.360
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.082
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
Tags: @product
45.186
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 12.983
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.090
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.338
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:23.143
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 11.310
When I enable persistence 12.841
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.916
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.646
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.831
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 8.583
And the computer reboots Tails 1:3.580
Given I enable persistence 10.722
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.538
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.825
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
2:36.487
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 10.368
# 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 20.635
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.019
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:36.980
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
43.220
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 10.560
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.819
Then persistence is disabled 0.138
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.330
And all notifications have disappeared 10.053
When I delete the persistent partition 2.941
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.928
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 10.071
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.588
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:36.947
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
48.296
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 10.418
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.369
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.300
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.528
And all notifications have disappeared 9.784
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.347
And all tps features are enabled 2.293
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:53.798
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:16.745
And I enable persistence 22.282
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.830
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.704
And persistence is enabled 2.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.417
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 9.129
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.599
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.083
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 12.254
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.192
When I enable persistence 10.150
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.610
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 10.906
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.225
When I try to enable persistence 1.369
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.978
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.267
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.271
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.534
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.425
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.410
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.045
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 12.927
And all notifications have disappeared 9.747
# 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" 0.258
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.595
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.414
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.948
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 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.220
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 9.919
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.191
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.387
When I try to enable persistence 1.391
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.640
When I log in to a new session 11.425
And all notifications have disappeared 9.627
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.467
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000