Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4151 05 Jan 2026, 19:15

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 31:12.583 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:26.891
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 2:12.741
And I update APT using apt 6.313
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.304
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.433
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.740
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.038
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.367
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:15.490
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 12.345
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.366
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.117
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.363
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.665
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.747
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:28.793
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.726
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 3.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
43.185
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 13.254
And the system is very low on memory 1.162
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.338
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.793
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.176
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.719
And I free up some memory 1.249
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.852
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.337
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 11.505
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.365
And all tps features are active 2.108
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.295
When I disable the first tps feature 2.544
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.960
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.340
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.679
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
15.846
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 9.614
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I disable the first tps feature 2.956
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 2.772
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
19.034
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.833
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I disable the first tps feature 3.270
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.659
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.424
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 9.443
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 10.724
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.712
When I write some files expected to persist 1.618
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.003
# 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" 18.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:0.284
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 9.923
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 11.294
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.192
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.885
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.787
And I capture all network traffic 0.228
And the network is plugged 0.215
And Tor is ready 12.655
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.596
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.212
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
Tags: @product
49.537
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 11.898
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.102
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.890
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:36.537
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 15.625
When I enable persistence 18.660
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.298
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 42.163
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.161
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.197
When I cold reboot the computer 9.292
And the computer reboots Tails 43.255
Given I enable persistence 19.541
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.578
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.550
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
2:53.527
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 9.896
# 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 27.345
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.960
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:39.601
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
46.246
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.200
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.449
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.839
And all notifications have disappeared 11.451
When I delete the persistent partition 3.557
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.420
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 9.727
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.576
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.347
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
53.015
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 10.785
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.346
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.598
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.195
And all notifications have disappeared 10.175
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.609
And all tps features are enabled 2.904
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:10.224
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
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 5:26.842
And I enable persistence 27.344
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.995
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.632
And persistence is enabled 2.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.562
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.273
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.449
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.737
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 9.583
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.387
When I enable persistence 12.330
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.863
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 10.018
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.211
When I try to enable persistence 1.335
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.090
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.249
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.256
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.209
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.650
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.101
When I try to enable persistence 1.364
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.932
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I log in to a new session 14.857
And all notifications have disappeared 10.038
# 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" 0.234
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.708
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.378
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.005
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.772
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.593
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.057
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.409
When I try to enable persistence 1.339
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.821
When I log in to a new session 12.290
And all notifications have disappeared 10.378
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.672
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000