Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_add-team-sprint-template 1 21 May 2026, 12:40

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 21:28.898 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.712
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.683
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.390
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.304
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
28.794
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.885
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.832
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.866
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.218
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.137
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.797
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.092
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.707
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.344
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
30.158
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.405
And the system is very low on memory 3.961
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.157
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.863
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.113
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.573
And I free up some memory 0.957
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.081
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.662
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.399
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.337
And all tps features are active 1.372
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.600
When I disable the first tps feature 3.074
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.330
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.964
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.382
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
13.807
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.575
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.093
When I disable the first tps feature 3.164
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.586
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.317
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.572
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 2.631
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.929
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
45.458
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.783
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 13.557
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.231
When I write some files expected to persist 1.231
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.559
# 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" 13.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:48.050
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.523
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.727
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.173
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.643
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.990
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.403
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.360
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.052
Tags: @product
42.536
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.107
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.118
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.785
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:54.778
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.667
When I enable persistence 15.017
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.101
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.176
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.377
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.325
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.576
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.442
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
When I cold reboot the computer 10.261
And the computer reboots Tails 37.962
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.257
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.185
Given I enable persistence 7.988
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.233
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.782
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:21.254
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.616
# 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 29.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.883
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.912
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
38.896
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.250
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.822
Then persistence is disabled 0.241
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.247
And all notifications have disappeared 8.153
When I delete the persistent partition 2.731
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.839
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.051
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.075
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.488
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.888
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
42.731
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.998
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.071
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.292
And all notifications have disappeared 7.661
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.037
And all tps features are enabled 1.198
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.238
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 30.140
And I enable persistence 19.663
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.076
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.564
And persistence is enabled 1.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.368
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.076
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.725
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.205
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.733
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.742
When I enable persistence 6.765
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.550
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.351
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.658
When I try to enable persistence 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.219
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.494
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.204
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.089
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.495
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.760
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 12.088
And all notifications have disappeared 9.373
# 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" 0.285
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.659
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.412
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.619
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.581
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.503
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.387
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.400
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.290
When I log in to a new session 11.370
And all notifications have disappeared 9.718
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.901
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000