Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4106 07 Dec 2025, 16:28

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 30:16.817 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:6.944
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 1:53.049
And I update APT using apt 6.599
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.296
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.797
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 11.634
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.169
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.332
And persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.411
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 10.265
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.176
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.724
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.692
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.809
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.110
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.255
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
34.318
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 10.123
And the system is very low on memory 0.949
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.149
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.074
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.665
And I free up some memory 1.413
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.128
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.533
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.309
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
And all tps features are active 2.234
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.377
When I disable the first tps feature 2.610
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.189
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.695
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.658
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
15.340
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 9.488
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.640
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.592
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.964
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 10.025
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 2.596
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.128
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.439
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 9.983
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 10.195
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.600
When I write some files expected to persist 1.633
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.799
# 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" 18.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.478
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 9.926
And the network is plugged 0.069
And Tor is ready 10.073
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.858
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.596
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 13.023
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.453
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
Tags: @product
44.531
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 10.144
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.112
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.653
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:1.516
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 10.131
When I enable persistence 12.429
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.235
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.230
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.370
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 6.406
And the computer reboots Tails 42.772
Given I enable persistence 12.908
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.690
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.998
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
2:34.668
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 enabled and logged in 10.614
# 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 22.166
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.968
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:20.352
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
40.809
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 9.481
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.460
Then persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.143
And all notifications have disappeared 10.023
When I delete the persistent partition 3.119
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.731
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 enabled and logged in 9.866
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.685
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.385
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
51.304
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 9.733
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.363
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.938
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.886
And all notifications have disappeared 10.268
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.905
And all tps features are enabled 2.655
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
7:26.106
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 6:31.632
And I enable persistence 39.939
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.411
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.907
And persistence is enabled 2.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.874
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 9.423
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 28.846
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.965
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 10.197
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.797
When I enable persistence 11.097
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.079
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.652
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 9.645
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.434
When I try to enable persistence 1.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.044
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.255
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.362
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.100
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.281
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.407
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 9.475
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.316
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.836
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I log in to a new session 13.800
And all notifications have disappeared 10.447
# 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" 0.261
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.488
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.237
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.929
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.020
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 10.372
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.081
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.383
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.270
When I log in to a new session 11.393
And all notifications have disappeared 9.896
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.226
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000