Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4153 06 Jan 2026, 08:55

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 20:26.172 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.857
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.795
And I update APT using apt 5.866
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.254
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.396
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 8.828
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.088
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.330
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.977
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 8.677
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.448
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.127
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.890
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.523
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.751
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.324
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
29.680
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 7.912
And the system is very low on memory 4.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.209
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.722
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.104
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.329
And I free up some memory 0.784
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.474
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.493
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 8.519
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
And all tps features are active 1.072
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.940
When I disable the first tps feature 2.530
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.098
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.446
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.475
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
13.940
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 8.000
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 3.045
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.239
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 7.317
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 2.621
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.079
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.515
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 7.461
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.372
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.400
When I write some files expected to persist 1.382
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.609
# 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" 12.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.667
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 7.670
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 8.638
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.296
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.528
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.523
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 12.383
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.444
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
39.326
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.657
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.132
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:43.611
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 8.604
When I enable persistence 14.227
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.278
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.551
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.282
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 8.883
And the computer reboots Tails 36.166
Given I enable persistence 6.812
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.417
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.059
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:10.854
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 8.057
# 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 27.578
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.250
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.809
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
38.056
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 8.259
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.215
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.064
And all notifications have disappeared 8.003
When I delete the persistent partition 2.947
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.828
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 7.983
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.418
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.098
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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42.001
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 8.055
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.261
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.464
And all notifications have disappeared 8.219
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.307
And all tps features are enabled 1.108
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.951
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 30.963
And I enable persistence 19.286
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.456
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.644
And persistence is enabled 1.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.256
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.049
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.672
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.695
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 8.611
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.379
When I enable persistence 6.619
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.077
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 8.302
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.985
When I try to enable persistence 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.667
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.167
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.198
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.441
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 8.033
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.841
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I log in to a new session 10.075
And all notifications have disappeared 9.331
# 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" 0.178
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.098
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.193
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.347
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.300
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 8.162
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.435
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.359
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.071
When I log in to a new session 10.505
And all notifications have disappeared 9.329
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.327
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000