Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4099 03 Dec 2025, 18:38

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 33:25.901 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:40.452
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 2:20.186
And I update APT using apt 12.475
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.622
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 6.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.696
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 29.066
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.795
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.571
And persistence is disabled 0.129
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.307
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.298
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.271
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.517
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.712
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.655
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.607
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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34.450
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 10.605
And the system is very low on memory 1.047
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.155
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.377
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.155
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.604
And I free up some memory 1.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.567
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:3.496
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.005
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 10.494
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
And all tps features are active 2.048
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.410
When I disable the first tps feature 2.735
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.632
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:32.877
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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15.440
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 9.512
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 2.680
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.693
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.751
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 17.793
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 2.687
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.060
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.808
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 8.945
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 10.608
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.601
When I write some files expected to persist 1.392
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.655
# 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" 18.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:52.714
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 11.020
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 10.013
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.169
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.671
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.339
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 12.704
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.394
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.092
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
Tags: @product
44.787
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 10.129
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.175
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.384
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.987
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 10.222
When I enable persistence 12.770
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.089
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.647
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.332
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.240
When I cold reboot the computer 5.970
And the computer reboots Tails 41.411
Given I enable persistence 12.885
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.574
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.607
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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2:46.319
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 10.768
# 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 23.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.841
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:37.404
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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41.645
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 10.152
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.004
Then persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.024
And all notifications have disappeared 10.327
When I delete the persistent partition 3.574
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.336
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 9.605
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.974
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.248
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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49.353
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 9.953
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.857
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.077
And all notifications have disappeared 9.971
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.895
And all tps features are enabled 2.858
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:55.378
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 5:7.180
And I enable persistence 23.749
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.302
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.726
And persistence is enabled 2.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.049
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 17.569
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 52.567
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:50.145
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 10.480
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 19.848
When I enable persistence 40.500
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 39.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:14.024
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 36.513
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 26.823
When I try to enable persistence 1.366
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.147
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.244
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.296
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.627
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 9.824
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.104
When I try to enable persistence 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.063
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I log in to a new session 14.357
And all notifications have disappeared 12.227
# 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" 0.291
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.575
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.286
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.049
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:28.128
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 19.489
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.841
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.437
When I try to enable persistence 1.348
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 15.047
When I log in to a new session 24.002
And all notifications have disappeared 10.348
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.451
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000