Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5997 10 Dec 2025, 11:48

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 32:59.788 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
2:23.092
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 2:4.945
And I update APT using apt 10.057
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.942
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.624
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 14.188
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.946
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.344
And persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:17.983
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 15.019
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.407
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.759
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.793
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.615
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.991
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.232
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
43.140
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 12.153
And the system is very low on memory 5.787
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.311
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.244
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.210
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.559
And I free up some memory 1.243
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.900
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:7.751
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 14.000
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.425
And all tps features are active 2.958
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.746
When I disable the first tps feature 3.388
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.234
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.039
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:26.362
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
18.110
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 11.122
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.208
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I disable the first tps feature 3.270
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 3.095
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.002
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 11.131
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.142
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 3.327
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.266
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.969
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 9.987
And the network is plugged 0.168
And Tor is ready 13.597
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.560
When I write some files expected to persist 1.517
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.105
# 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" 19.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:10.631
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.632
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 11.662
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.360
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.160
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 13.692
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.441
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.148
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
Tags: @product
55.226
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.429
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.140
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.816
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:33.219
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 20.254
When I enable persistence 25.564
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.752
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.035
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.494
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.191
When I cold reboot the computer 12.794
And the computer reboots Tails 43.933
Given I enable persistence 10.766
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.715
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.510
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:54.508
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 13.056
# 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 34.900
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.234
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:33.081
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
50.656
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 11.921
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.045
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.542
And all notifications have disappeared 10.582
When I delete the persistent partition 3.019
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.864
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 12.201
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.196
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.779
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
59.250
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 10.318
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.117
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.884
And all notifications have disappeared 9.887
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.407
And all tps features are enabled 2.872
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:9.310
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
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 5:21.129
And I enable persistence 33.358
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.980
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.706
And persistence is enabled 2.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.488
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 9.880
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.852
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.957
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.041
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.210
When I enable persistence 13.194
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.520
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 12.558
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.902
When I try to enable persistence 1.440
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.392
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.376
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.292
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.312
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.038
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.464
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.019
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I log in to a new session 13.891
And all notifications have disappeared 11.493
# 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" 0.264
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.662
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.495
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.893
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.439
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 12.436
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.358
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.561
When I try to enable persistence 1.382
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.860
When I log in to a new session 13.192
And all notifications have disappeared 9.982
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.389
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000