Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4120 13 Dec 2025, 12:29

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 31:50.168 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:15.300
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 2:0.059
And I update APT using apt 7.746
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.411
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.720
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 14.021
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.706
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:11.168
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 13.970
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.390
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.130
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.757
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.590
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.844
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.209
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.213
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
38.892
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 11.152
And the system is very low on memory 5.665
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.263
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.425
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.146
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.579
And I free up some memory 1.347
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.743
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.269
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 13.940
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.455
And all tps features are active 2.224
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.278
When I disable the first tps feature 2.795
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.686
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.835
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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18.626
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 enabled and logged in 12.264
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.096
When I disable the first tps feature 3.266
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.079
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.572
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.282
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 10.882
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 3.257
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.812
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.586
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 11.012
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 15.416
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.637
When I write some files expected to persist 1.776
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.193
# 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" 19.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:17.367
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 10.623
And the network is plugged 0.150
And Tor is ready 12.054
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.244
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:28.950
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.103
And Tor is ready 13.362
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.429
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.090
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.067
Tags: @product
57.383
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 13.868
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.122
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.209
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:26.718
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 13.040
When I enable persistence 28.337
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.578
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.730
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.600
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
When I cold reboot the computer 7.909
And the computer reboots Tails 45.159
Given I enable persistence 13.053
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.538
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.402
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
2:45.181
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 14.619
# 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 29.455
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.693
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:28.139
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
47.751
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 10.184
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.840
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.150
And all notifications have disappeared 10.520
When I delete the persistent partition 3.505
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.846
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 10.875
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.983
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.264
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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56.037
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 9.791
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.116
When I try to enable persistence 1.424
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.242
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.691
And all notifications have disappeared 9.510
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.566
And all tps features are enabled 2.618
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:11.744
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 5:27.541
And I enable persistence 29.719
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.726
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.650
And persistence is enabled 2.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.193
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.473
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.048
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.835
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 12.581
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.408
When I enable persistence 11.327
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.986
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 10.401
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.030
When I try to enable persistence 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.168
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.292
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.226
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.769
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 9.879
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.092
When I try to enable persistence 1.313
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.787
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I log in to a new session 13.444
And all notifications have disappeared 11.098
# 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" 0.252
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.578
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.632
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.004
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.505
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 10.548
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.030
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.365
When I try to enable persistence 1.329
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.764
When I log in to a new session 12.237
And all notifications have disappeared 9.691
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.259
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000