Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4138 26 Dec 2025, 11:52

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 28:29.677 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:30.430
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:16.217
And I update APT using apt 6.958
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.273
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.761
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 9.824
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.549
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.334
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.822
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 10.308
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.724
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.545
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.702
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.563
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
32.873
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 9.771
And the system is very low on memory 0.986
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.206
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.599
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.129
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.614
And I free up some memory 0.907
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.020
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.008
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 9.969
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
And all tps features are active 2.172
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.650
When I disable the first tps feature 2.750
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.673
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.038
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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15.486
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 9.733
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 2.680
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.986
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.912
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 2.580
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.293
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.784
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 9.848
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 10.456
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.579
When I write some files expected to persist 1.323
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.735
# 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" 17.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:55.706
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 9.529
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 10.090
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.438
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.924
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 13.698
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.467
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.036
Tags: @product
45.083
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 9.842
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 11.950
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:55.235
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 10.117
When I enable persistence 10.272
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.018
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.851
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.150
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 9.221
And the computer reboots Tails 40.335
Given I enable persistence 9.834
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.572
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.533
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
2:19.735
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.461
# 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 20.782
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.861
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.035
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
39.505
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 9.486
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.044
Then persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.980
And all notifications have disappeared 10.496
When I delete the persistent partition 2.961
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:33.210
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 9.603
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.867
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.405
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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47.260
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 9.407
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.009
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.841
And all notifications have disappeared 10.049
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.369
And all tps features are enabled 2.196
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:19.705
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
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 5:36.493
And I enable persistence 28.084
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.428
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.632
And persistence is enabled 2.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.531
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 9.108
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.717
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.655
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 9.701
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.961
When I enable persistence 9.491
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.718
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 9.409
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.097
When I try to enable persistence 1.456
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.736
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.195
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.269
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.420
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.047
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.740
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 1.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.521
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.094
When I log in to a new session 12.404
And all notifications have disappeared 10.043
# 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" 0.264
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.714
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.383
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.166
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.753
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.553
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.923
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.410
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.720
When I log in to a new session 11.614
And all notifications have disappeared 9.516
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.592
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000