Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4111 10 Dec 2025, 03:29

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 30:54.799 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:10.307
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:53.888
And I update APT using apt 6.026
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.418
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.147
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 9.448
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.611
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.336
And persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:3.620
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 10.631
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.392
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.128
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.299
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.659
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.983
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.614
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.843
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
42.216
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 10.436
And the system is very low on memory 1.128
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.249
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.088
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.343
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.205
And I free up some memory 1.251
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.777
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:1.332
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 10.359
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.397
And all tps features are active 2.200
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.232
When I disable the first tps feature 7.320
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.164
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.988
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.152
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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16.033
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 9.967
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.112
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.117
When I disable the first tps feature 2.797
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.104
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.075
When I enable the first tps feature 2.631
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.693
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 12.009
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 4.039
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 5.427
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.572
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 9.659
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 12.041
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.718
When I write some files expected to persist 1.537
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.016
# 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" 18.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:3.181
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 11.005
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 10.343
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 8.264
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.389
And I capture all network traffic 0.023
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 13.202
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.390
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.085
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
50.309
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.170
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.093
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.513
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:30.146
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 9.763
When I enable persistence 14.077
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.794
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.178
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.028
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 14.212
And the computer reboots Tails 42.265
Given I enable persistence 26.400
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.767
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.244
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
3:8.140
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 10.334
# 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 31.167
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.504
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:38.642
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 40.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
44.357
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 10.589
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.572
Then persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.166
And all notifications have disappeared 10.841
When I delete the persistent partition 3.481
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.912
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 11.170
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.731
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.662
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
52.948
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.042
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.316
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.518
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.557
And all notifications have disappeared 10.294
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.992
And all tps features are enabled 2.918
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:5.136
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 5:24.306
And I enable persistence 24.729
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.962
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.691
And persistence is enabled 2.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.382
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.942
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.666
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.161
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 10.035
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.055
When I enable persistence 10.225
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.899
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 10.160
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.288
When I try to enable persistence 1.348
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.918
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.328
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.087
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.254
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.713
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 10.214
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.414
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.180
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 13.953
And all notifications have disappeared 10.350
# 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" 0.244
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.633
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.355
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.699
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.585
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 10.179
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.296
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.406
When I try to enable persistence 1.524
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.950
When I log in to a new session 12.885
And all notifications have disappeared 10.216
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.067
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000