Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4131 19 Dec 2025, 11:50

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 19:47.489 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:58.526
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:45.429
And I update APT using apt 5.976
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.311
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.134
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 8.399
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.913
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.225
And persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.531
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.440
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.617
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.453
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.364
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 55.943
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.215
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
Tags: @product
27.923
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.247
And the system is very low on memory 3.874
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.380
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.432
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.123
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.372
And I free up some memory 0.769
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.666
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.199
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 enabled and logged in 8.304
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
And all tps features are active 1.103
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.946
When I disable the first tps feature 2.489
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.459
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.452
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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12.326
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.072
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.447
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.423
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.839
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.308
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.513
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.816
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.282
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 enabled and logged in 7.102
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.804
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.189
When I write some files expected to persist 1.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.308
# 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" 11.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.566
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 enabled and logged in 7.147
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.810
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.388
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.917
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 11.568
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.108
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
Tags: @product
37.621
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.528
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 13.247
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:37.982
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 8.406
When I enable persistence 13.634
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.270
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.384
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.256
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 8.711
And the computer reboots Tails 35.080
Given I enable persistence 6.407
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.367
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.167
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product
2:2.344
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.923
# 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 26.500
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.106
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 58.546
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
35.885
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.431
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.115
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.156
And all notifications have disappeared 8.082
When I delete the persistent partition 2.675
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.959
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 enabled and logged in 7.506
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.168
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.007
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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38.947
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.713
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.133
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.203
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.505
And all notifications have disappeared 7.907
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.255
And all tps features are enabled 0.928
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.396
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 29.307
And I enable persistence 19.286
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.821
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.566
And persistence is enabled 1.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.471
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.288
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.631
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.092
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.752
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.166
When I enable persistence 7.415
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.130
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 7.425
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.808
When I try to enable persistence 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.029
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.192
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.133
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.981
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 7.178
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.806
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I log in to a new session 9.927
And all notifications have disappeared 8.796
# 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" 0.167
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.411
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.175
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.161
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.345
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 7.182
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.628
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.324
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.610
When I log in to a new session 8.996
And all notifications have disappeared 8.435
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.202
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000