Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4121 14 Dec 2025, 12:33

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 31:32.000 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:24.702
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:4.470
And I update APT using apt 9.718
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.369
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.719
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 15.036
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.712
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.337
And persistence is disabled 0.132
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.970
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 14.018
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.419
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.802
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.628
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.369
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.264
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.252
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
39.547
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 12.286
And the system is very low on memory 5.786
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.325
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.539
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.128
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.507
And I free up some memory 0.912
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.469
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.788
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 13.148
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.478
And all tps features are active 2.237
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.435
When I disable the first tps feature 3.122
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.946
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.736
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.672
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
18.268
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 12.033
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I disable the first tps feature 3.195
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.654
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 10.041
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 3.194
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.205
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.216
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 10.378
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 14.576
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.690
When I write some files expected to persist 1.293
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.134
# 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" 18.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.073
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 enabled and logged in 10.224
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 11.412
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.177
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.608
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.005
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 12.797
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.426
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.077
Tags: @product
51.175
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 12.774
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.142
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.873
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:24.391
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 13.388
When I enable persistence 22.274
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.269
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.577
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.135
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.207
When I cold reboot the computer 12.150
And the computer reboots Tails 44.374
Given I enable persistence 13.516
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.589
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.754
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
2:30.621
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 12.820
# 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 28.976
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.392
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:18.957
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
51.125
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.028
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.211
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.238
Then persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.807
And all notifications have disappeared 10.484
When I delete the persistent partition 2.868
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.899
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 13.301
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.990
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.220
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:1.182
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 13.628
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.113
When I try to enable persistence 1.470
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.996
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.235
And all notifications have disappeared 10.024
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.358
And all tps features are enabled 2.394
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:4.999
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 5:19.725
And I enable persistence 29.489
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.893
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.721
And persistence is enabled 2.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.606
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 9.368
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.542
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.317
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 13.299
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.030
When I enable persistence 9.501
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.935
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 11.458
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.724
When I try to enable persistence 1.380
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.135
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.361
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.297
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.286
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.406
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 10.480
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.086
When I try to enable persistence 1.336
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.968
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 12.690
And all notifications have disappeared 10.495
# 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" 0.526
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.644
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.349
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.227
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.396
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 11.282
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.104
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.386
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.862
When I log in to a new session 12.853
And all notifications have disappeared 10.835
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.417
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000