Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4097 02 Dec 2025, 12:51

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 29:41.280 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:5.785
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 1:52.343
And I update APT using apt 6.174
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.286
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.646
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 10.800
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.751
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And persistence is disabled 0.149
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.166
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 10.245
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.643
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.169
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.151
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.725
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.087
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.822
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.250
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
39.400
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 10.804
And the system is very low on memory 1.193
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.208
When I try to create a persistent partition 9.316
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.141
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.597
And I free up some memory 1.609
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.985
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.537
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 10.725
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.363
And all tps features are active 2.323
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.461
When I disable the first tps feature 3.204
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.711
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.363
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
16.739
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 11.196
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.530
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.554
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.577
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.543
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.735
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.065
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.541
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 9.881
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 10.181
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.650
When I write some files expected to persist 1.420
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.230
# 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" 19.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:34.789
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 10.318
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 10.581
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 8.164
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.416
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 43.248
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.435
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
44.533
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 11.440
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.094
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.520
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:2.895
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 10.101
When I enable persistence 13.923
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.183
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.115
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.307
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 4.874
And the computer reboots Tails 43.406
Given I enable persistence 11.227
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.497
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.940
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
2:18.982
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 9.903
# 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 21.178
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.133
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:18.461
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
41.547
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 9.420
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.167
Then persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.027
And all notifications have disappeared 11.312
When I delete the persistent partition 3.027
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.629
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 9.777
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.895
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.245
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
52.129
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 9.972
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.358
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.192
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.489
And all notifications have disappeared 10.119
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.365
And all tps features are enabled 3.091
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:10.143
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 5:26.468
And I enable persistence 26.815
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.894
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.653
And persistence is enabled 2.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.632
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 9.953
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.889
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.887
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 9.560
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.679
When I enable persistence 12.713
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.079
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.823
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 10.123
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.173
When I try to enable persistence 1.366
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.679
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.364
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.425
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.226
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.851
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 9.507
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.161
When I try to enable persistence 1.375
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.128
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I log in to a new session 13.073
And all notifications have disappeared 10.942
# 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" 0.232
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.484
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.434
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.987
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.040
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 9.694
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.018
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.438
When I try to enable persistence 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.111
When I log in to a new session 12.111
And all notifications have disappeared 12.337
Then the Tor Browser starts 6.575
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000