Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4104 06 Dec 2025, 19:19

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 38:17.855 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:23.228
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 2:2.817
And I update APT using apt 9.760
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.542
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.626
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 15.618
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.224
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
And persistence is disabled 0.135
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:18.659
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 15.178
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.445
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.142
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 32.617
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.688
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.411
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.892
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.221
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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40.606
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 13.261
And the system is very low on memory 4.697
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.321
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.499
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.179
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.602
And I free up some memory 1.043
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.389
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.701
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 enabled and logged in 14.309
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.386
And all tps features are active 2.237
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.445
When I disable the first tps feature 3.303
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.285
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.704
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.664
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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16.994
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 10.348
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.110
When I disable the first tps feature 3.291
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.830
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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16.467
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 9.939
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I disable the first tps feature 3.133
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.172
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.356
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 10.487
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 43.113
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.609
When I write some files expected to persist 1.357
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.298
# 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" 18.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:58.517
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 9.597
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 11.630
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.138
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.026
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.819
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 12.505
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.389
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.064
Tags: @product
51.127
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 12.922
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.327
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.916
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:23.360
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.903
When I enable persistence 34.888
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.178
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 45.674
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 56.885
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.919
When I cold reboot the computer 19.982
And the computer reboots Tails 47.190
Given I enable persistence 12.629
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.597
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.849
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 2.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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3:46.557
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 32.331
# 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 59.222
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.134
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:36.379
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
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1:6.968
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.361
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.769
Then persistence is disabled 0.128
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 17.149
And all notifications have disappeared 10.556
When I delete the persistent partition 3.551
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:52.550
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 13.051
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.075
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.895
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:29.167
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:13.925
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 11.878
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 1.378
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.366
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.406
And all notifications have disappeared 10.678
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.460
And all tps features are enabled 2.504
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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8:13.243
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 7:14.135
And I enable persistence 41.893
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.922
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.748
And persistence is enabled 2.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.571
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 48.963
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 38.755
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.125
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 12.391
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.552
When I enable persistence 15.569
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.716
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.585
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.956
When I try to enable persistence 1.330
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.933
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.214
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.279
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.817
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 10.661
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.408
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.365
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 15.083
And all notifications have disappeared 11.981
# 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" 0.600
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.751
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.252
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.109
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.732
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 10.981
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.356
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.896
When I try to enable persistence 1.380
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.936
When I log in to a new session 12.151
And all notifications have disappeared 11.050
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.935
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000