Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4092 28 Nov 2025, 20:57

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 36:12.965 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:21.304
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 2:6.195
And I update APT using apt 7.596
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.323
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.921
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 16.911
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.963
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
And persistence is disabled 0.135
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:24.773
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 33.432
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.481
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 52.647
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.939
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.205
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.609
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.220
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
40.631
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 11.864
And the system is very low on memory 4.431
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.351
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.664
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.264
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.663
And I free up some memory 1.197
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.587
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:21.141
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 14.209
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.358
And all tps features are active 2.240
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.308
When I disable the first tps feature 3.424
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.408
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.366
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:42.551
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
Tags: @product
17.117
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 11.385
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.087
When I disable the first tps feature 2.737
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.512
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.874
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 10.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.123
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 3.102
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.027
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.631
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 10.414
And the network is plugged 0.158
And Tor is ready 13.624
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.729
When I write some files expected to persist 1.507
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.033
# 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" 18.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:26.013
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 10.715
And the network is plugged 0.068
And Tor is ready 10.932
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.403
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:41.749
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 13.256
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.340
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.072
Tags: @product
54.476
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 13.841
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.132
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.976
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:48.589
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 13.630
When I enable persistence 24.071
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.694
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.715
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.340
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.293
When I cold reboot the computer 11.109
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.821
Given I enable persistence 11.621
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.572
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.476
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
3:16.134
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 13.142
# 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 35.847
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.715
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:52.747
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
52.085
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 12.288
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.341
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.537
And all notifications have disappeared 10.439
When I delete the persistent partition 2.899
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:3.411
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 11.382
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.727
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.927
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
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1:1.720
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 11.247
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.805
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 15.776
And all notifications have disappeared 9.478
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.405
And all tps features are enabled 2.487
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:54.074
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 6:4.844
And I enable persistence 31.602
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.126
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.790
And persistence is enabled 2.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.606
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.719
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.264
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.159
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 11.533
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.998
When I enable persistence 13.019
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.883
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 12.084
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.383
When I try to enable persistence 1.392
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.665
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.421
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.325
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.721
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 10.272
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.397
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.526
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I log in to a new session 15.746
And all notifications have disappeared 10.820
# 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" 0.361
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.634
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.349
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.982
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.693
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.481
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.226
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.367
When I try to enable persistence 1.383
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.972
When I log in to a new session 13.945
And all notifications have disappeared 11.837
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.460
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000