Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4136 24 Dec 2025, 11:09

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 19:33.898 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.888
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.457
And I update APT using apt 5.361
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.283
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.768
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 8.633
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.332
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.865
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 8.262
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.592
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.490
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.293
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.640
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.193
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
28.315
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 7.467
And the system is very low on memory 4.127
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.516
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.529
And I free up some memory 0.777
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.606
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.243
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 8.176
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.387
And all tps features are active 1.258
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.885
When I disable the first tps feature 2.475
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.743
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.170
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product
12.686
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 7.392
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.432
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.672
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 7.182
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.483
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.856
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.948
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 7.117
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 8.489
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.255
When I write some files expected to persist 1.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.215
# 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" 11.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.447
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 7.164
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 9.446
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.275
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.425
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.443
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.361
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.049
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
37.722
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 8.343
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.068
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.515
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:39.001
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 8.636
When I enable persistence 13.896
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.037
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.395
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.214
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.176
When I cold reboot the computer 8.615
And the computer reboots Tails 33.861
Given I enable persistence 6.497
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.460
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.062
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:3.639
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 8.098
# 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 26.495
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.543
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.566
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
36.944
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 8.135
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.694
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.027
And all notifications have disappeared 7.949
When I delete the persistent partition 2.700
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.780
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 7.426
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.038
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.224
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.851
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
39.197
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 7.612
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.514
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.389
And all notifications have disappeared 7.962
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.331
And all tps features are enabled 0.926
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.731
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 29.889
And I enable persistence 18.725
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.109
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.514
And persistence is enabled 1.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.169
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 7.139
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.472
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.525
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 7.913
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.450
When I enable persistence 6.387
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.441
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 7.587
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.261
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.820
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.167
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.189
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.967
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 7.963
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.499
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.602
And all notifications have disappeared 8.592
# 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 0.410
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.175
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.205
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.941
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 7.583
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.587
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.422
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.598
When I log in to a new session 10.076
And all notifications have disappeared 9.194
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.421
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000