Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4133 21 Dec 2025, 12:31

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 19:28.675 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:27.963
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 1:15.333
And I update APT using apt 5.588
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.232
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.033
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 8.722
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.535
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.232
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.888
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 8.649
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.235
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.172
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.442
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.312
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.753
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
Tags: @product
27.781
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.496
And the system is very low on memory 3.171
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.215
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.689
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.111
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.388
And I free up some memory 0.775
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.869
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.013
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 8.208
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
And all tps features are active 1.125
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.834
When I disable the first tps feature 2.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.851
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.101
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
12.760
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 7.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.458
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.751
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 7.293
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.475
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.816
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.162
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 7.307
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.853
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.161
When I write some files expected to persist 1.040
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.311
# 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" 11.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:33.350
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 7.191
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 8.775
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.337
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.989
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.315
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.427
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
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38.084
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 8.312
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.523
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:42.366
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 8.568
When I enable persistence 14.062
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.597
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.492
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.516
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
When I cold reboot the computer 10.112
And the computer reboots Tails 35.418
Given I enable persistence 6.321
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.384
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.593
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:6.838
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 7.747
# 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 27.501
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.278
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.185
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
36.425
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 8.021
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.618
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.653
And all notifications have disappeared 8.033
When I delete the persistent partition 2.610
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:14.640
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 7.783
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.431
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.175
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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40.090
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 7.718
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.036
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.389
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.403
And all notifications have disappeared 8.151
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.286
And all tps features are enabled 0.948
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.547
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 30.087
And I enable persistence 17.974
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.532
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.502
And persistence is enabled 1.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.714
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 6.987
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.207
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.330
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 8.457
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.814
When I enable persistence 6.329
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.180
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 7.744
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.508
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.200
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.130
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.154
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.649
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 7.539
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.409
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I log in to a new session 9.931
And all notifications have disappeared 8.780
# 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" 0.178
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.089
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.188
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.192
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.100
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 7.676
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.713
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.287
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.705
When I log in to a new session 9.332
And all notifications have disappeared 7.958
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.338
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000