Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4152 05 Jan 2026, 20:28

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 19:38.035 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.914
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 1:18.129
And I update APT using apt 5.749
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.204
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.686
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 14.067
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.243
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.632
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 8.298
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.324
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.551
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.517
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.709
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.873
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.190
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
27.667
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 7.462
And the system is very low on memory 3.652
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.178
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.365
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.368
And I free up some memory 0.787
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.701
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.482
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 8.072
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.331
And all tps features are active 1.231
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.890
When I disable the first tps feature 2.503
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.299
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.873
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
12.815
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 7.577
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.047
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.498
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.636
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 7.159
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I disable the first tps feature 2.472
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.813
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.052
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 7.037
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.436
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.345
When I write some files expected to persist 1.145
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.254
# 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" 11.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.924
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 7.124
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 8.196
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.966
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.865
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 11.955
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.394
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.092
Tags: @product
37.982
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 8.539
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.057
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.082
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:44.125
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 8.568
When I enable persistence 15.643
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.221
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.408
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.330
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
When I cold reboot the computer 10.039
And the computer reboots Tails 36.257
Given I enable persistence 6.329
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.363
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.675
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:4.194
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 8.086
# 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 27.406
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.236
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.494
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
35.544
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 7.635
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.189
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.324
And all notifications have disappeared 8.161
When I delete the persistent partition 2.757
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.383
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 7.615
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.333
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.140
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.061
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39.380
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 7.986
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.911
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.129
And all notifications have disappeared 7.822
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.253
And all tps features are enabled 0.937
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.845
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 29.947
And I enable persistence 18.677
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.072
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.586
And persistence is enabled 1.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.224
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 7.085
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.614
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.342
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 7.823
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.607
When I enable persistence 6.294
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.865
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.506
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.836
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.660
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.172
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.181
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.336
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 7.741
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.297
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 10.071
And all notifications have disappeared 8.018
# 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" 0.160
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.110
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.188
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.380
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.998
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 7.822
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.610
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.307
When I try to enable persistence 2.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.955
When I log in to a new session 9.020
And all notifications have disappeared 8.852
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.338
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000