Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4135 23 Dec 2025, 11:35

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 27:5.246 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:59.899
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 1:44.267
And I update APT using apt 8.439
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.270
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.338
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 9.459
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.937
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.273
And persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.215
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 logged in 9.979
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.365
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.185
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.624
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.491
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.207
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.201
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product
35.335
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 logged in 9.672
And the system is very low on memory 1.493
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.170
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.946
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.132
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.558
And I free up some memory 1.047
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.557
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.756
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 9.393
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.372
And all tps features are active 2.007
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.116
When I disable the first tps feature 2.642
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.034
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.545
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.735
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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14.642
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 9.123
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I disable the first tps feature 2.558
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.817
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 9.033
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.562
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.039
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.714
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 9.127
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 9.618
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.554
When I write some files expected to persist 1.356
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.469
# 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" 17.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:21.212
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 8.778
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 9.377
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.145
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.560
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.299
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 42.163
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.445
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
Tags: @product
36.713
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 9.831
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.076
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 9.095
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:48.200
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 9.606
When I enable persistence 9.136
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.592
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.595
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.868
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
When I cold reboot the computer 8.571
And the computer reboots Tails 39.651
Given I enable persistence 9.369
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.485
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.987
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
2:20.939
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 9.501
# 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 20.667
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.718
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.151
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
39.387
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 9.821
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.501
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.465
And all notifications have disappeared 9.681
When I delete the persistent partition 3.388
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.948
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 9.216
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.513
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.900
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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46.320
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 9.583
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.475
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.220
And all notifications have disappeared 9.446
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.928
And all tps features are enabled 2.285
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:42.067
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 5:7.747
And I enable persistence 20.469
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.183
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.641
And persistence is enabled 2.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.527
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 8.810
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.926
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.939
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 9.551
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.127
When I enable persistence 7.823
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.621
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 9.581
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.824
When I try to enable persistence 1.317
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.955
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.191
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.293
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.166
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 9.233
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.010
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I log in to a new session 11.093
And all notifications have disappeared 10.231
# 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" 0.207
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.384
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.252
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.894
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.481
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 9.304
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.868
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.301
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.511
When I log in to a new session 11.464
And all notifications have disappeared 9.352
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.291
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000