Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4159 08 Jan 2026, 22:21

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 30:18.804 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:11.241
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:55.309
And I update APT using apt 8.364
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.290
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.387
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 13.330
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.827
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.328
And persistence is disabled 0.168
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.078
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 13.661
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.373
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.291
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.538
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.286
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.208
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
39.040
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.449
And the system is very low on memory 5.043
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.465
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.747
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.136
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.527
And I free up some memory 1.033
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.994
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:0.247
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 13.667
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.403
And all tps features are active 2.080
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.487
When I disable the first tps feature 3.226
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.592
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.656
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
16.938
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 10.635
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.119
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 3.152
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.083
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.578
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.126
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.812
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 enabled and logged in 10.349
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 3.133
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.092
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.063
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 enabled and logged in 10.534
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 10.397
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.572
When I write some files expected to persist 1.367
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.060
# 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" 18.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.094
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 enabled and logged in 10.256
And the network is plugged 0.078
And Tor is ready 10.502
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.168
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.518
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.379
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 12.369
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.443
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.107
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.052
Tags: @product
51.651
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 12.729
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.124
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.903
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:16.652
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 12.830
When I enable persistence 22.269
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.919
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.791
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.110
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 11.922
And the computer reboots Tails 41.690
Given I enable persistence 11.624
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.558
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.642
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
2:16.886
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 enabled and logged in 11.838
# 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 25.833
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.208
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:13.591
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
46.742
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 10.557
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.629
Then persistence is disabled 0.133
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.846
And all notifications have disappeared 10.309
When I delete the persistent partition 2.847
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.657
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 enabled and logged in 11.570
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.116
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.627
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
54.344
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 10.818
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.459
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.322
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.290
And all notifications have disappeared 9.820
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.425
And all tps features are enabled 2.256
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:5.298
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:24.173
And I enable persistence 26.871
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.406
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.635
And persistence is enabled 2.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.060
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.093
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.297
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.538
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 10.971
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.583
When I enable persistence 10.571
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.404
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 10.317
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.748
When I try to enable persistence 1.339
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.982
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.219
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.273
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.097
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 9.784
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.454
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.370
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 11.906
And all notifications have disappeared 10.127
# 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" 0.291
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.546
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.256
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.847
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.565
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 9.817
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.568
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.406
When I try to enable persistence 1.395
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.235
When I log in to a new session 11.906
And all notifications have disappeared 9.475
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.552
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000