Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21774-tor-0.4.9.12 1 09 Sep 2026, 17:55

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 24:58.382 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:49.171
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:34.780
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.413
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.240
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.591
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.896
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.346
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.962
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 23.574
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.199
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.513
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.731
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.278
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.232
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
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32.992
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.831
And the system is very low on memory 5.206
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.115
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.148
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.474
And I free up some memory 0.789
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.251
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:58.094
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.672
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.333
And all tps features are active 9.664
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.986
When I disable the first tps feature 2.458
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.499
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.776
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.890
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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14.163
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.033
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 3.276
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.844
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.006
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.598
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.040
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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48.087
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.542
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 13.309
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.565
When I write some files expected to persist 0.953
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.210
# 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? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.121
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.937
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 9.833
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.455
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.080
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 12.071
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.348
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.077
Tags: @product
53.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 22.630
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.067
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.841
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:59.335
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.786
When I enable persistence 23.713
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.985
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.228
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.430
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.315
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.481
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.717
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.203
When I cold reboot the computer 6.492
And the computer reboots Tails 35.526
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.320
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.296
Given I enable persistence 14.780
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.090
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.306
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.483
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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2:9.786
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.738
# 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 27.857
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.079
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.732
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.160
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.012
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.367
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.254
And all notifications have disappeared 7.491
When I delete the persistent partition 2.603
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.719
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.872
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.373
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.103
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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1:4.458
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.884
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.783
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.472
And all notifications have disappeared 8.359
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.321
And all tps features are enabled 10.527
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.481
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 2:9.140
And I enable persistence 29.487
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.793
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.559
And persistence is enabled 8.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.520
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
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 7.594
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.432
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.949
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.630
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.564
When I enable persistence 16.617
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.135
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.270
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.155
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.503
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.087
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.295
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.094
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.648
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.064
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.681
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I log in to a new session 9.619
And all notifications have disappeared 7.585
# 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" 0.118
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.099
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.201
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.082
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.138
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.561
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.929
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.086
When I log in to a new session 8.957
And all notifications have disappeared 7.856
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.290
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000