Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4124 17 Dec 2025, 09:12

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 37:45.189 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:34.631
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 2:21.143
And I update APT using apt 6.089
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.324
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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35.673
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 10.444
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.208
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.491
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.096
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 logged in 10.453
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.571
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.268
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.564
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.059
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.225
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.748
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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39.368
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 10.333
And the system is very low on memory 1.320
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.251
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.874
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.198
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.662
And I free up some memory 1.006
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.773
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.059
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.696
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.462
And all tps features are active 3.600
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.864
When I disable the first tps feature 3.236
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.634
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.702
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.138
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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15.824
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.031
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.055
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 2.574
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.676
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.545
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 10.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.633
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.245
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.820
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 11.559
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 13.491
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.623
When I write some files expected to persist 1.856
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.992
# 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" 19.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:5.082
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 10.154
And the network is plugged 0.155
And Tor is ready 10.472
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.217
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.785
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.301
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 13.266
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.400
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.068
Tags: @product
46.696
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.158
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.090
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.827
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:5.801
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 10.234
When I enable persistence 15.908
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.515
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.434
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.753
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.324
When I cold reboot the computer 6.326
And the computer reboots Tails 43.202
Given I enable persistence 11.976
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.698
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.236
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:27.468
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 10.564
# 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 20.221
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.905
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:21.629
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 27.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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42.706
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 10.496
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.878
Then persistence is disabled 0.178
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.841
And all notifications have disappeared 10.322
When I delete the persistent partition 3.433
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.472
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 10.087
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.142
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.433
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:2.565
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 9.670
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.568
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.563
And all notifications have disappeared 11.086
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.910
And all tps features are enabled 3.248
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12:44.144
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 11:58.217
And I enable persistence 29.018
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.564
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.692
And persistence is enabled 2.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.283
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 10.406
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 47.218
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 3.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.545
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.183
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.146
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.891
When I enable persistence 14.027
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.225
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 11.032
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.325
When I try to enable persistence 1.345
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.672
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.826
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.082
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.282
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 20.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.929
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.295
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 16.996
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.336
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.366
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 14.763
And all notifications have disappeared 10.688
# 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" 0.511
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.549
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.374
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.440
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.248
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 9.861
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.229
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.606
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.565
When I log in to a new session 13.356
And all notifications have disappeared 13.914
Then the Tor Browser starts 9.069
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000