Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4091 28 Nov 2025, 01:49

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 36:26.958 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:24.144
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 2:5.859
And I update APT using apt 7.657
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.456
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.889
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.029
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.870
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.834
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.364
And persistence is disabled 0.200
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:39.021
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 15.467
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.390
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.151
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.907
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.610
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.515
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.687
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.219
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
41.762
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 12.788
And the system is very low on memory 5.011
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.334
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.836
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.137
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.894
And I free up some memory 1.331
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.800
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:24.189
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 enabled and logged in 14.754
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.377
And all tps features are active 2.157
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.600
When I disable the first tps feature 3.513
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.650
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.631
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.608
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
17.307
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 10.925
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 3.183
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 2.718
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.094
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.633
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I disable the first tps feature 2.955
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.235
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.784
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 enabled and logged in 21.397
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 13.839
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.633
When I write some files expected to persist 1.329
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.137
# 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" 20.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:3.318
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 15.543
And the network is plugged 1.868
And Tor is ready 11.141
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.814
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:5.575
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 1.823
And Tor is ready 14.797
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.326
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.064
Tags: @product
1:8.935
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 21.203
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.124
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.897
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
4:8.125
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 13.621
When I enable persistence 35.284
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.138
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 45.159
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.055
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 11.026
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.480
Given I enable persistence 14.359
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.530
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.150
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
3:9.709
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 11.890
# 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 31.245
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.208
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:48.399
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
52.985
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 11.119
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.263
Then persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.710
And all notifications have disappeared 11.249
When I delete the persistent partition 2.895
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:9.503
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 12.917
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.093
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.458
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:45.315
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
1:0.575
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 10.932
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.158
When I try to enable persistence 1.571
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.986
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.541
And all notifications have disappeared 10.265
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.453
And all tps features are enabled 2.403
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:21.823
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 5:34.759
And I enable persistence 29.919
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.208
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.757
And persistence is enabled 2.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.612
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 9.893
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.917
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.069
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 13.210
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 16.581
When I enable persistence 11.518
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.077
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.835
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 10.776
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.837
When I try to enable persistence 1.465
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.493
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.385
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.260
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.078
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.317
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:3.603
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.492
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.443
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.111
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.373
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 16.004
And all notifications have disappeared 12.061
# 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" 0.315
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.622
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.329
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.523
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.668
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 10.663
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.604
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.408
When I try to enable persistence 1.468
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 6.012
When I log in to a new session 13.531
And all notifications have disappeared 10.803
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.941
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000