Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4180 20 Jan 2026, 11:42

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 26:32.420 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.289
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 1:46.376
And I update APT using apt 9.675
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.268
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.330
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 9.670
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.414
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.326
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 logged in 9.846
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.576
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.510
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.566
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.092
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.220
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
31.231
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 logged in 9.489
And the system is very low on memory 0.984
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.237
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.424
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.125
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.505
And I free up some memory 0.951
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.961
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.865
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 9.260
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.337
And all tps features are active 2.147
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.108
When I disable the first tps feature 2.563
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.859
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.387
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.192
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
14.655
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 9.215
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.528
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.495
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.783
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 8.919
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.604
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.084
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.373
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 8.955
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 9.642
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.599
When I write some files expected to persist 1.305
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.409
# 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" 17.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.127
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 9.064
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 9.422
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.401
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.129
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 12.237
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.366
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
Tags: @product
37.879
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 9.725
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.281
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:54.750
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 9.916
When I enable persistence 12.487
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.389
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.737
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.473
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.378
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.632
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.389
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
When I cold reboot the computer 4.072
And the computer reboots Tails 39.851
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.475
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.361
Given I enable persistence 11.314
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.109
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.452
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.399
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
2:7.149
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 9.570
# 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 19.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.554
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:11.404
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
39.445
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 9.691
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.965
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.779
And all notifications have disappeared 10.038
When I delete the persistent partition 3.454
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.286
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 9.312
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.516
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.122
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
45.043
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 9.439
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 7.487
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.540
And all notifications have disappeared 9.530
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.539
And all tps features are enabled 2.278
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:41.167
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 5:6.210
And I enable persistence 20.796
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.427
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.616
And persistence is enabled 2.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.486
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 8.628
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.223
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.651
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 9.637
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.044
When I enable persistence 10.620
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.798
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 9.268
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.620
When I try to enable persistence 1.353
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.102
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.745
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.269
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.597
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 9.336
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.094
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 11.012
And all notifications have disappeared 9.488
# 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" 0.268
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.551
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.265
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.845
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.181
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 9.604
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.620
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.346
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.022
When I log in to a new session 11.584
And all notifications have disappeared 9.433
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.366
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000