Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4125 17 Dec 2025, 15:28

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 36:7.816 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:41.103
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:21.058
And I update APT using apt 8.027
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.518
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.307
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 20.348
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.105
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.365
And persistence is disabled 0.146
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:27.258
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 14.300
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.398
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.141
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 39.876
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.700
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.051
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.508
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.213
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
44.754
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 11.641
And the system is very low on memory 5.044
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.239
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.734
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.142
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.216
And I free up some memory 1.056
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.095
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:26.690
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 12.988
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.473
And all tps features are active 2.293
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.329
When I disable the first tps feature 3.277
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.659
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.573
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:47.478
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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18.255
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 11.314
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.187
When I disable the first tps feature 3.209
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 3.126
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.113
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 10.368
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.183
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 3.040
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.340
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.508
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 21.999
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 14.473
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.767
When I write some files expected to persist 1.826
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.052
# 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" 19.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.202
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 11.125
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 11.278
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.205
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.218
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.843
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 13.711
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.435
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.076
Tags: @product
55.586
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 13.984
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.135
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.278
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:28.589
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 12.519
When I enable persistence 24.111
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.597
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.369
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.270
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
When I cold reboot the computer 11.777
And the computer reboots Tails 46.246
Given I enable persistence 13.215
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.621
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.534
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:11.597
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 13.877
# 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 35.861
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.240
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:44.345
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 29.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
53.419
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 12.633
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.740
Then persistence is disabled 0.163
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.445
And all notifications have disappeared 10.885
When I delete the persistent partition 4.080
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.818
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 11.971
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.225
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.793
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:4.264
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 12.063
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.358
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.156
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.472
And all notifications have disappeared 10.379
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.108
And all tps features are enabled 3.042
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
7:31.493
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 6:38.700
And I enable persistence 36.970
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.791
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.599
And persistence is enabled 3.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.984
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 9.904
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.373
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.831
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 13.343
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.999
When I enable persistence 13.139
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.499
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 11.034
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.522
When I try to enable persistence 1.405
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.225
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.381
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.087
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.305
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.735
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 11.309
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.096
When I try to enable persistence 1.342
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.044
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.356
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I log in to a new session 15.255
And all notifications have disappeared 11.227
# 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" 0.409
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.603
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.289
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.109
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:5.802
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 10.830
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.344
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.407
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.298
When I log in to a new session 14.468
And all notifications have disappeared 11.684
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.117
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000