Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4118 12 Dec 2025, 17:21

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 34:12.849 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:35.193
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:19.839
And I update APT using apt 7.749
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.352
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.690
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 16.617
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.872
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.335
And persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:18.231
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 13.983
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.419
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.129
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.850
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.636
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.298
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.146
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.689
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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43.693
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 12.784
And the system is very low on memory 5.733
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.304
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.824
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.147
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.579
And I free up some memory 1.031
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.530
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:13.164
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 14.453
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.383
And all tps features are active 2.375
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.504
When I disable the first tps feature 3.281
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.923
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.996
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:32.865
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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18.069
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 11.219
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.082
When I disable the first tps feature 3.131
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.574
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.251
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 10.693
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I disable the first tps feature 3.233
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.112
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.019
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.033
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.192
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 13.851
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.599
When I write some files expected to persist 1.447
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.827
# 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" 19.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.640
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 11.446
And the network is plugged 0.090
And Tor is ready 15.901
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.226
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.076
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.378
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 12.718
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.466
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
Tags: @product
55.738
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 13.541
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.096
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.474
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:46.292
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 18.003
When I enable persistence 27.342
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.752
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 42.468
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.667
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.195
When I cold reboot the computer 10.656
And the computer reboots Tails 53.456
Given I enable persistence 13.083
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.732
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.723
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
2:47.829
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 enabled and logged in 13.505
# 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 30.712
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.834
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:30.707
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
55.835
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 13.637
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.964
Then persistence is disabled 0.324
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.755
And all notifications have disappeared 10.840
When I delete the persistent partition 3.827
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.692
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 11.677
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.073
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.585
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:29.030
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:7.507
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 13.069
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.333
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 15.313
And all notifications have disappeared 11.184
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.940
And all tps features are enabled 2.869
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:32.462
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 5:43.175
And I enable persistence 32.571
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.371
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.696
And persistence is enabled 2.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.171
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 10.499
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.998
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.239
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 11.831
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.240
When I enable persistence 14.742
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.274
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 11.658
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.753
When I try to enable persistence 1.337
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 7.447
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.378
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.396
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.656
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.323
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.954
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 10.662
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.109
When I try to enable persistence 1.352
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.670
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.364
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I log in to a new session 14.189
And all notifications have disappeared 14.116
# 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" 0.258
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.603
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.310
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.014
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.895
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 11.371
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.018
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.553
When I try to enable persistence 1.378
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.515
When I log in to a new session 14.402
And all notifications have disappeared 10.708
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.595
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000