Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4157 08 Jan 2026, 07:54

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 20:33.676 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.496
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 1:19.506
And I update APT using apt 6.687
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.282
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.751
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 8.564
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.463
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.243
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.731
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 9.044
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.617
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.469
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.052
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.824
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.223
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
29.983
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 7.601
And the system is very low on memory 3.517
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.192
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.795
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.084
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.408
And I free up some memory 0.886
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.980
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.644
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 8.602
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.366
And all tps features are active 1.465
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.112
When I disable the first tps feature 3.013
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.296
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.014
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.262
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
13.371
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 7.963
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.488
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.621
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 7.469
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 3.076
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.887
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.327
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 7.386
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.544
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.208
When I write some files expected to persist 1.284
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.380
# 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" 12.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.354
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 7.322
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.616
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.399
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.877
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 12.389
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.405
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.078
Tags: @product
39.661
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 8.690
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.316
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:43.079
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 9.106
When I enable persistence 15.118
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.522
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.491
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.228
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.193
When I cold reboot the computer 6.321
And the computer reboots Tails 36.373
Given I enable persistence 7.766
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.359
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.383
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product
2:6.595
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 8.506
# 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 25.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.510
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.650
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.005
Tags: @product
39.454
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 8.357
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.984
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.984
And all notifications have disappeared 8.589
When I delete the persistent partition 2.996
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.296
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 7.407
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.080
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.833
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.701
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
42.701
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 8.212
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.358
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.078
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.458
And all notifications have disappeared 8.131
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.259
And all tps features are enabled 0.989
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.626
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 32.058
And I enable persistence 22.519
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.274
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.802
And persistence is enabled 1.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.774
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 7.389
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.815
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.866
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 8.353
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.107
When I enable persistence 7.763
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.727
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 8.165
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.309
When I try to enable persistence 1.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.272
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.195
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.248
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.948
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.765
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.650
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.261
And all notifications have disappeared 8.745
# 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" 0.251
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.146
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.234
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.540
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.662
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 7.866
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.183
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.372
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.721
When I log in to a new session 10.035
And all notifications have disappeared 8.914
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.432
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000