Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4127 18 Dec 2025, 08:38

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 29:38.400 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.434
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 1:54.947
And I update APT using apt 6.891
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.665
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.024
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 10.628
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.146
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.340
And persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.230
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.288
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.728
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.602
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.604
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.201
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.263
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
36.269
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.607
And the system is very low on memory 1.054
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.212
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.292
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.157
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.710
And I free up some memory 1.039
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.528
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.873
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 10.582
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.443
And all tps features are active 2.285
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.295
When I disable the first tps feature 2.608
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.212
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.213
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.339
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.061
Tags: @product
15.945
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.030
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.512
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.083
When I disable the first tps feature 2.714
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.132
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 3.165
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.795
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 10.231
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 3.236
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.123
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.063
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 enabled and logged in 10.260
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 10.386
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.643
When I write some files expected to persist 1.545
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.859
# 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" 19.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:3.191
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 9.823
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 10.447
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.661
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.210
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 12.783
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.639
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.090
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
44.491
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 11.336
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.097
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.443
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:12.047
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 10.095
When I enable persistence 19.859
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.104
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.302
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.063
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 5.345
And the computer reboots Tails 44.497
Given I enable persistence 12.545
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.537
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.306
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
3:0.212
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 enabled and logged in 10.629
# 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 32.576
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.200
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:39.110
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 32.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
41.293
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.140
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.833
Then persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.702
And all notifications have disappeared 9.890
When I delete the persistent partition 3.145
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.868
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 9.646
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.610
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.189
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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49.774
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 10.002
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.350
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.089
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.673
And all notifications have disappeared 9.714
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.946
And all tps features are enabled 2.656
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:55.733
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:16.230
And I enable persistence 24.583
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.509
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.867
And persistence is enabled 2.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.024
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.639
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.712
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.586
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.651
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.534
When I enable persistence 9.808
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.131
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 9.944
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.631
When I try to enable persistence 1.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.038
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.294
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.273
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.438
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 10.159
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.042
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 12.834
And all notifications have disappeared 10.230
# 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" 0.247
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.522
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.320
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.173
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.969
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 10.042
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.625
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.374
When I try to enable persistence 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.376
When I log in to a new session 12.494
And all notifications have disappeared 14.080
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.889
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000