Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4372 03 May 2026, 10:53

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 20:53.240 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.555
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.532
And I update APT using apt 5.983
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.243
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.002
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.595
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.588
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.376
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.223
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.273
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.408
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.394
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.537
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.219
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
27.920
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.237
And the system is very low on memory 3.961
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.167
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.758
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.224
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.354
And I free up some memory 0.803
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.344
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.721
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.990
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
And all tps features are active 1.160
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.910
When I disable the first tps feature 2.534
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.033
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.387
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.122
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
12.424
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.170
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.478
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 2.413
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.043
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.815
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.193
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I disable the first tps feature 2.514
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.900
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.449
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.062
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 15.876
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.171
When I write some files expected to persist 1.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.336
# 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" 11.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:18.618
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 7.314
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 16.822
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.827
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.381
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 22.564
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.391
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.048
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
Tags: @product
39.355
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.531
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.865
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:43.604
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.286
When I enable persistence 12.924
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.507
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.291
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.375
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.301
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.552
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.431
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.178
When I cold reboot the computer 8.669
And the computer reboots Tails 36.134
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.236
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.160
Given I enable persistence 6.890
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.204
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.227
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:5.840
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.784
# 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 26.250
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.949
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.103
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
36.536
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.710
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.176
Then persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.940
And all notifications have disappeared 7.564
When I delete the persistent partition 2.725
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.187
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.374
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.479
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.066
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
42.973
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.165
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.972
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.313
And all notifications have disappeared 7.597
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.318
And all tps features are enabled 1.240
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.764
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 32.069
And I enable persistence 18.560
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.136
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.565
And persistence is enabled 1.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.837
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
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 7.150
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.177
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.861
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.138
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.312
When I enable persistence 6.605
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.242
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.175
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.003
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.087
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.435
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.188
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.888
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.623
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.389
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.116
And all notifications have disappeared 9.561
# 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" 0.158
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.406
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.153
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.195
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.262
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.830
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.865
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.319
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.781
When I log in to a new session 10.450
And all notifications have disappeared 8.762
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.340
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000