Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5929 03 Nov 2025, 15:58

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 34:22.944 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
2:40.060
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:26.135
And I update APT using apt 6.627
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.292
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.976
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 13.049
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.587
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.340
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:27.315
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 14.202
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.436
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.567
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.242
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.304
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.266
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
40.344
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 11.461
And the system is very low on memory 4.785
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.283
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.601
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.212
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.635
And I free up some memory 1.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.540
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:17.059
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 12.806
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.418
And all tps features are active 2.085
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.832
When I disable the first tps feature 3.226
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.272
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.072
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.251
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product
17.337
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 11.056
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I disable the first tps feature 3.142
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.627
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.772
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 enabled and logged in 10.734
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.695
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.113
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.801
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 10.640
And the network is plugged 0.156
And Tor is ready 13.789
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.609
When I write some files expected to persist 1.574
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.286
# 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" 17.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:50.892
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 10.462
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 11.083
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.167
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.750
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.488
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.074
And Tor is ready 42.063
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.440
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
50.554
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.330
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.100
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.940
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:36.882
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 12.829
When I enable persistence 22.405
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.185
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.984
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.658
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 10.480
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.289
Given I enable persistence 10.175
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.552
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.991
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
3:13.118
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 12.588
# 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 37.560
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.314
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:52.865
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
50.325
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 11.747
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.636
Then persistence is disabled 0.135
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.959
And all notifications have disappeared 10.507
When I delete the persistent partition 2.887
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.534
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 12.402
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.894
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.907
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:0.079
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 11.458
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.390
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.255
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.755
And all notifications have disappeared 9.734
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.509
And all tps features are enabled 2.719
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:7.570
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
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 5:26.049
And I enable persistence 26.719
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.073
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.622
And persistence is enabled 2.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.396
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 9.676
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.059
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.807
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 11.685
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.364
When I enable persistence 13.167
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.792
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 10.256
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.295
When I try to enable persistence 1.363
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.588
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.271
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.288
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.684
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 10.433
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.987
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I log in to a new session 13.129
And all notifications have disappeared 10.309
# 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" 0.213
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.528
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.313
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.942
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.636
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 11.518
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.638
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.437
When I try to enable persistence 1.341
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.506
When I log in to a new session 12.875
And all notifications have disappeared 9.008
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.005
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000