Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4132 20 Dec 2025, 12:09

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 31:43.526 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.739
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 1:57.870
And I update APT using apt 7.330
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.361
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.896
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 13.724
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.457
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.333
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.140
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 13.938
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.377
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.804
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.644
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.222
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.707
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.243
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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38.880
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 11.481
And the system is very low on memory 4.827
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.497
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.846
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.169
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.594
And I free up some memory 0.965
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.867
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.319
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 12.814
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.376
And all tps features are active 2.535
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.394
When I disable the first tps feature 3.114
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.417
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.524
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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18.186
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 11.942
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 3.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.623
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.127
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 enabled and logged in 10.153
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 2.656
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.107
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:23.492
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.036
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.590
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 41.021
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.551
When I write some files expected to persist 1.233
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.602
# 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" 18.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:5.269
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.331
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 10.844
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.180
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.486
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.875
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 12.711
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.389
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.127
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.075
Tags: @product
52.404
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 13.407
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.120
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.266
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:17.739
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 13.410
When I enable persistence 21.065
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.290
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.298
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.529
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.198
When I cold reboot the computer 7.644
And the computer reboots Tails 46.172
Given I enable persistence 13.834
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.603
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.532
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:36.771
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 13.551
# 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 30.322
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.344
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:19.204
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
51.865
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 13.739
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.015
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.968
And all notifications have disappeared 10.713
When I delete the persistent partition 2.925
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:50.266
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 12.619
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.113
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.845
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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58.435
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.500
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.477
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.304
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.191
And all notifications have disappeared 8.989
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.436
And all tps features are enabled 2.398
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:6.396
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 5:21.861
And I enable persistence 29.234
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.450
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.580
And persistence is enabled 3.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.944
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 14.250
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.969
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.002
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 11.892
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.539
When I enable persistence 12.789
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.128
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 10.867
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.845
When I try to enable persistence 1.457
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.789
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.354
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.284
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.449
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 10.564
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.435
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.764
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.337
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 12.301
And all notifications have disappeared 10.509
# 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" 0.255
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.564
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.294
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.151
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.069
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 10.184
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.366
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.370
When I try to enable persistence 1.378
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.853
When I log in to a new session 12.811
And all notifications have disappeared 10.156
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.517
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000