Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4112 10 Dec 2025, 10:30

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 35:25.437 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:38.024
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 2:18.314
And I update APT using apt 8.982
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.526
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.774
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.494
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.913
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:33.746
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.945
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.408
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 32.669
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.786
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.816
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:29.690
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.236
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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40.344
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.406
And the system is very low on memory 5.573
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.246
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.182
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.226
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.713
And I free up some memory 1.544
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.876
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:16.211
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 22.538
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.341
And all tps features are active 2.501
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.721
When I disable the first tps feature 3.265
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.236
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.753
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:26.493
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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18.107
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 11.835
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.115
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 3.197
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 2.560
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.933
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 10.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.185
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 3.279
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.854
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.208
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 10.947
And the network is plugged 2.314
And Tor is ready 15.168
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.811
When I write some files expected to persist 1.988
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.497
# 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" 19.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:15.881
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.341
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 10.986
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.227
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.871
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:26.625
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 14.988
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.413
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.098
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
Tags: @product
57.966
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 12.973
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.092
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.254
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:31.923
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 14.109
When I enable persistence 24.981
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.058
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.208
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.523
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
When I cold reboot the computer 11.738
And the computer reboots Tails 48.061
Given I enable persistence 12.999
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.544
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.322
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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3:18.092
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 13.832
# 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 38.826
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.731
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:39.136
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 35.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
55.247
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 12.124
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.558
Then persistence is disabled 0.202
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.911
And all notifications have disappeared 11.408
When I delete the persistent partition 3.528
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:52.833
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 13.475
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.847
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:29.707
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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1:1.574
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 11.748
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.318
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.721
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.770
And all notifications have disappeared 10.950
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.448
And all tps features are enabled 2.318
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:56.058
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 6:10.447
And I enable persistence 29.037
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.816
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.666
And persistence is enabled 2.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.536
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
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 10.269
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 28.638
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.364
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 12.795
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.008
When I enable persistence 14.456
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.427
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 12.386
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.297
When I try to enable persistence 1.421
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.049
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.273
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.285
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.485
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 11.616
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.104
When I try to enable persistence 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.938
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I log in to a new session 14.755
And all notifications have disappeared 10.942
# 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" 0.263
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.537
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.328
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.057
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:7.694
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 11.503
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.051
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.397
When I try to enable persistence 1.423
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.321
When I log in to a new session 15.568
And all notifications have disappeared 11.500
Then the Tor Browser starts 5.915
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 2.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000