Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4095 01 Dec 2025, 16:11

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 34:59.048 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:17.469
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:58.967
And I update APT using apt 7.907
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.455
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.086
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 14.141
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.543
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
And persistence is disabled 0.152
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:38.346
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 14.041
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.461
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.153
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.199
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.663
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.108
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.123
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.527
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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41.126
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 11.265
And the system is very low on memory 5.770
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.183
When I try to create a persistent partition 7.189
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.165
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.664
And I free up some memory 1.269
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.032
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:26.707
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 14.384
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.494
And all tps features are active 2.643
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.688
When I disable the first tps feature 3.294
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.523
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.256
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:46.077
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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17.607
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 11.086
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 3.275
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.742
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.669
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 10.139
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 3.155
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.152
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:0.559
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.210
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.499
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 14.530
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.759
When I write some files expected to persist 1.313
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.681
# 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" 18.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:31.828
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 11.299
And the network is plugged 0.123
And Tor is ready 11.464
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.948
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.566
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 13.497
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.438
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
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1:11.990
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 30.788
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 17.972
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:45.626
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 14.985
When I enable persistence 23.795
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.422
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.456
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.080
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.206
When I cold reboot the computer 8.265
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.860
Given I enable persistence 13.370
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.758
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.257
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:11.311
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 16.802
# 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 31.380
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.030
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:44.997
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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52.264
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 12.300
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.892
Then persistence is disabled 0.179
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.832
And all notifications have disappeared 11.126
When I delete the persistent partition 3.519
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:11.180
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 11.655
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.098
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:47.066
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:0.134
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.331
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.317
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.510
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.903
And all notifications have disappeared 9.953
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.448
And all tps features are enabled 2.479
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:14.562
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 5:32.448
And I enable persistence 26.960
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.215
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.667
And persistence is enabled 2.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.876
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 9.648
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.470
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.593
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 11.917
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.864
When I enable persistence 9.969
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.076
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.985
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 10.045
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.952
When I try to enable persistence 1.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.594
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.298
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.078
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.224
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.287
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 10.281
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.358
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.359
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I log in to a new session 13.549
And all notifications have disappeared 11.129
# 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" 0.211
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.552
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.339
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.004
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.834
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 10.958
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.581
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.407
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.867
When I log in to a new session 13.911
And all notifications have disappeared 10.236
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.546
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000