Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4142 30 Dec 2025, 12:11

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 31:22.665 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.790
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:56.941
And I update APT using apt 8.177
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.408
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.739
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.909
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.256
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.355
And persistence is disabled 0.145
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.033
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 14.418
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.509
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.090
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.669
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.109
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.462
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.597
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
38.181
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 11.154
And the system is very low on memory 5.516
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.330
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.435
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.131
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.538
And I free up some memory 1.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.352
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.786
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 13.314
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.508
And all tps features are active 2.388
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.550
When I disable the first tps feature 3.171
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.717
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.052
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
17.902
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 11.591
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.162
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I disable the first tps feature 3.129
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.096
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.543
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.410
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 10.198
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 2.830
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.175
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.945
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.035
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 13.489
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.548
When I write some files expected to persist 1.324
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.801
# 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" 17.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:9.531
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 10.630
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 15.286
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.867
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.023
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 12.752
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.387
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.074
Tags: @product
51.611
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.695
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.122
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.560
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:25.804
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.055
When I enable persistence 21.085
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.332
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.353
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.030
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.255
When I cold reboot the computer 17.096
And the computer reboots Tails 44.869
Given I enable persistence 12.261
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.533
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.757
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
2:50.959
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 13.098
# 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 30.861
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.414
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:33.111
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
49.173
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.381
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.835
Then persistence is disabled 0.141
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.621
And all notifications have disappeared 10.381
When I delete the persistent partition 3.417
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.653
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 10.448
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.767
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.108
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
56.724
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.740
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.757
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.481
And all notifications have disappeared 9.813
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.362
And all tps features are enabled 2.306
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:7.375
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:24.363
And I enable persistence 27.622
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.453
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.628
And persistence is enabled 2.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.923
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.909
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.312
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.269
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.255
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.673
When I enable persistence 10.551
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.093
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.332
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.333
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.700
When I try to enable persistence 1.299
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.083
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.252
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.209
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.768
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.112
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.868
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 12.873
And all notifications have disappeared 11.737
# 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" 0.265
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.569
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.397
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.079
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.745
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.555
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.478
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.486
When I try to enable persistence 1.389
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.759
When I log in to a new session 11.943
And all notifications have disappeared 9.947
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.043
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000