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test_Tails_ISO_devel 4137 25 Dec 2025, 11:29

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 19:29.603 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.180
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 1:16.590
And I update APT using apt 5.445
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.218
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.092
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 8.621
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.843
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.233
And persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.106
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 8.201
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.335
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.892
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.390
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.433
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.505
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.217
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
28.311
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 7.500
And the system is very low on memory 3.670
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.262
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.840
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.118
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.387
And I free up some memory 0.832
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.643
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.747
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 8.067
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.411
And all tps features are active 1.091
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.833
When I disable the first tps feature 2.464
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.953
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.215
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.662
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
13.244
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 7.908
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.770
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 7.208
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.606
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.801
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.097
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 7.343
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.547
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.214
When I write some files expected to persist 1.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.244
# 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" 11.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.392
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 7.255
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 8.301
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.176
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.309
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.760
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 12.064
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.316
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
Tags: @product
36.405
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.492
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.080
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.951
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:38.275
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 8.406
When I enable persistence 14.391
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.334
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.244
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.940
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 5.995
And the computer reboots Tails 35.959
Given I enable persistence 6.627
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.355
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.703
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:2.540
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 8.015
# 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 26.447
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.023
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 58.353
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
36.417
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 7.885
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.684
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.731
And all notifications have disappeared 7.898
When I delete the persistent partition 2.771
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:12.775
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 7.356
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.041
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.296
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.866
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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40.177
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 7.857
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 2.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.710
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.193
And all notifications have disappeared 7.811
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.235
And all tps features are enabled 1.036
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.132
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 30.164
And I enable persistence 19.944
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.900
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.533
And persistence is enabled 1.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.086
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 7.168
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.355
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.440
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 8.491
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.618
When I enable persistence 7.532
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.355
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 8.014
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.595
When I try to enable persistence 2.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.021
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.188
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.169
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.498
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 7.519
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 2.334
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.568
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.519
And all notifications have disappeared 8.670
# 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" 0.384
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.100
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.163
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.171
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.552
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 7.566
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.581
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.316
When I try to enable persistence 2.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.833
When I log in to a new session 9.782
And all notifications have disappeared 8.151
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.275
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000