Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4155 07 Jan 2026, 08:19

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 19:38.259 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.634
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 1:18.179
And I update APT using apt 5.461
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.215
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.301
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 8.687
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.008
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.254
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.331
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 8.391
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.380
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.404
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.458
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.996
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.252
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
28.350
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.558
And the system is very low on memory 3.899
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.193
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.483
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.108
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.530
And I free up some memory 0.806
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.710
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.260
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 8.094
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.435
And all tps features are active 1.348
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.947
When I disable the first tps feature 2.465
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.328
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.342
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.882
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 7.371
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.487
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.424
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.874
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 7.305
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.507
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.848
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.064
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 7.121
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.511
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.181
When I write some files expected to persist 1.217
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.305
# 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" 11.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.499
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 7.217
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.841
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.186
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.235
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.300
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.073
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.447
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.068
Tags: @product
36.099
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 8.391
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.063
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.815
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:38.582
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 8.560
When I enable persistence 13.524
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.179
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.227
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.776
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
When I cold reboot the computer 8.768
And the computer reboots Tails 34.863
Given I enable persistence 6.287
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.349
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.763
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:5.673
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 8.333
# 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 29.197
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.474
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 58.878
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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37.307
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 8.340
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.015
Then persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.719
And all notifications have disappeared 8.071
When I delete the persistent partition 2.671
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:20.017
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 8.291
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.199
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.941
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.367
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
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40.445
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 7.780
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.032
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.077
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.597
And all notifications have disappeared 8.132
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.297
And all tps features are enabled 1.232
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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58.903
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 29.573
And I enable persistence 17.895
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.367
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.584
And persistence is enabled 1.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.264
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 6.942
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.791
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.665
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 7.948
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.706
When I enable persistence 6.406
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.793
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 7.644
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.677
When I try to enable persistence 2.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.788
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.202
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.176
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
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 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.670
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 2.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.214
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.868
And all notifications have disappeared 8.291
# 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" 0.148
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.100
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.156
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.283
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.309
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 7.651
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.324
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.357
When I try to enable persistence 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.282
When I log in to a new session 9.099
And all notifications have disappeared 8.044
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.343
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000