Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4122 15 Dec 2025, 12:35

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 32:21.541 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:16.657
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 1:57.463
And I update APT using apt 8.567
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.410
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.883
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 13.168
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.253
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
And persistence is disabled 0.160
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.963
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 13.741
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.426
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.144
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.587
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.677
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.016
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.999
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.228
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
38.652
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 11.778
And the system is very low on memory 4.749
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.267
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.037
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.153
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.584
And I free up some memory 1.155
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.345
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.350
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 13.814
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.374
And all tps features are active 2.023
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.413
When I disable the first tps feature 2.834
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.368
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.138
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.209
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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19.232
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 12.894
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 3.128
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.065
When I enable the first tps feature 2.649
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.121
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.208
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 11.527
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I disable the first tps feature 3.174
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.263
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.383
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 10.817
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 13.937
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.648
When I write some files expected to persist 1.448
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.619
# 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" 22.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:6.926
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 11.537
And the network is plugged 0.069
And Tor is ready 11.731
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.272
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.976
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 13.351
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.444
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
50.814
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 13.225
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.121
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.138
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:21.618
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 13.290
When I enable persistence 21.960
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.684
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.894
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.091
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.240
When I cold reboot the computer 10.703
And the computer reboots Tails 44.114
Given I enable persistence 11.905
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.560
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.011
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:5.599
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 13.273
# 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 31.931
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.549
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:40.870
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 29.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
49.328
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 11.633
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.804
Then persistence is disabled 0.165
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.957
And all notifications have disappeared 10.323
When I delete the persistent partition 2.935
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.751
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 11.283
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.670
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.392
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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56.444
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 10.394
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.101
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.606
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.464
And all notifications have disappeared 9.726
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.325
And all tps features are enabled 2.402
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:37.838
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 5:51.008
And I enable persistence 31.343
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.501
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.755
And persistence is enabled 2.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.018
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 9.448
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.909
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.186
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.905
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.694
When I enable persistence 12.001
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.047
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 9.515
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.957
When I try to enable persistence 2.382
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.825
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.393
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.304
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.091
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.262
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.823
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 9.887
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 2.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.232
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I log in to a new session 13.496
And all notifications have disappeared 10.139
# 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" 0.262
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.490
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.316
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.949
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.811
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.147
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.238
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.368
When I try to enable persistence 1.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.574
When I log in to a new session 11.948
And all notifications have disappeared 9.600
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.393
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000