Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4098 03 Dec 2025, 16:09

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 42:12.030 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:26.862
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:7.805
And I update APT using apt 7.991
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.614
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.939
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 13.552
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.612
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.354
And persistence is disabled 0.156
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 19.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:24.351
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 15.055
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.679
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.271
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.503
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.747
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.364
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:28.032
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.624
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
40.480
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 11.354
And the system is very low on memory 4.823
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.343
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.703
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.163
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.607
And I free up some memory 1.096
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.709
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:17.818
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 13.704
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.583
And all tps features are active 2.486
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.773
When I disable the first tps feature 3.170
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.346
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.901
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.192
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
25.017
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 10.687
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 11.291
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.574
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.469
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 10.682
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.139
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I disable the first tps feature 3.221
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.280
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.017
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 11.321
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 14.022
And I take note of which tps features are available 11.588
When I write some files expected to persist 1.777
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.702
# 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" 19.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:17.800
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 11.177
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 11.728
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.189
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.704
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:28.509
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 13.553
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.353
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.092
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
Tags: @product
55.787
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.253
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.105
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.790
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:34.032
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 14.978
When I enable persistence 24.839
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.155
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.861
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.971
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.257
When I cold reboot the computer 10.881
And the computer reboots Tails 46.748
Given I enable persistence 14.299
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.557
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.316
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
3:27.845
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 13.659
# 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 53.783
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.105
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:41.540
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
50.899
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 10.672
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.414
Then persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.055
And all notifications have disappeared 11.309
When I delete the persistent partition 2.913
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.991
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 11.326
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.083
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.238
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.060
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:2.863
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 11.447
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.338
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.535
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.016
And all notifications have disappeared 9.865
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.428
And all tps features are enabled 2.476
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13:28.472
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 12:8.900
And I enable persistence 1:1.852
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.699
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.781
And persistence is enabled 2.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.983
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 10.416
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.568
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.896
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 11.775
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.957
When I enable persistence 40.783
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.094
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 11.261
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.207
When I try to enable persistence 2.440
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 7.434
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.284
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.653
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.298
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.760
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 10.749
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.396
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.710
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 1.231
When I log in to a new session 12.683
And all notifications have disappeared 13.066
# 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" 0.293
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.690
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.404
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.930
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.643
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 10.645
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.003
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.449
When I try to enable persistence 1.577
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 6.103
When I log in to a new session 13.376
And all notifications have disappeared 11.273
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.863
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000