Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4086 25 Nov 2025, 02:09

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 32:35.108 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:7.372
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:54.031
And I update APT using apt 6.132
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.283
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.233
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.091
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.402
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.538
And persistence is disabled 0.184
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:25.274
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 15.065
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.403
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.364
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.517
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.168
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.376
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.096
Tags: @product
36.289
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 11.001
And the system is very low on memory 0.966
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.154
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.249
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.194
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.626
And I free up some memory 1.269
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.237
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:20.156
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 14.904
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.408
And all tps features are active 2.474
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.454
When I disable the first tps feature 3.398
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.673
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.689
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:42.061
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product
16.705
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.075
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.080
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.607
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.592
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 10.872
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.152
And I disable the first tps feature 3.266
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.141
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.392
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 11.436
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 12.844
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.786
When I write some files expected to persist 1.664
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.273
# 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" 19.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:26.307
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 10.091
And the network is plugged 0.124
And Tor is ready 10.640
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.781
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.917
And I capture all network traffic 0.019
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 12.664
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.497
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.144
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.103
Tags: @product
49.335
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 13.148
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.089
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.918
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:36.200
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.188
When I enable persistence 15.365
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.721
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.934
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.817
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.218
When I cold reboot the computer 9.141
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.657
Given I enable persistence 12.939
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.578
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.422
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
3:0.629
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 19.378
# 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 24.355
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.870
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:43.730
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
42.555
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 10.246
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.526
Then persistence is disabled 0.128
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.842
And all notifications have disappeared 10.480
When I delete the persistent partition 2.943
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:6.035
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 10.674
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.197
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:46.685
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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51.644
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 11.902
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.217
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.750
And all notifications have disappeared 10.109
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.467
And all tps features are enabled 2.579
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:13.652
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 5:30.839
And I enable persistence 26.814
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.349
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.956
And persistence is enabled 2.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.351
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 9.401
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.207
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.361
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 12.197
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.724
When I enable persistence 13.944
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.948
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.030
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.759
When I try to enable persistence 1.369
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.422
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.198
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.504
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.944
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 10.447
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.370
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 7.411
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I log in to a new session 13.077
And all notifications have disappeared 11.189
# 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" 0.233
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.505
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.294
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.876
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.122
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 11.461
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.399
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.340
When I try to enable persistence 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.153
When I log in to a new session 13.489
And all notifications have disappeared 9.841
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.745
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000