Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4375 05 May 2026, 11:00

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 22:50.018 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.968
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.686
And I update APT using apt 6.880
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.388
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.552
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 9.195
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.912
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.222
And persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.647
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 8.894
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.367
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.140
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.333
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.473
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.679
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.471
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.233
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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30.859
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 8.209
And the system is very low on memory 4.099
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.221
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.789
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.105
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.396
And I free up some memory 0.937
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.601
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.817
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 9.093
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.462
And all tps features are active 2.007
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.111
When I disable the first tps feature 2.573
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.305
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.919
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.129
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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14.050
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 8.549
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I disable the first tps feature 2.601
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.596
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 7.903
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.541
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.912
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.647
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 7.858
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 18.647
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.321
When I write some files expected to persist 1.285
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.318
# 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" 13.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:32.998
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 enabled and logged in 8.018
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 18.516
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.197
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.339
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.669
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 22.590
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.417
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.076
Tags: @product
40.210
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.434
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.088
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.650
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:57.479
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.069
When I enable persistence 14.598
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.788
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.510
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.563
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.324
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.614
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.335
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
When I cold reboot the computer 10.835
And the computer reboots Tails 39.846
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.280
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.177
Given I enable persistence 7.539
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.267
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.213
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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2:14.545
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 9.263
# 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 25.943
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.781
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.542
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
42.852
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.722
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.497
Then persistence is disabled 0.161
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.626
And all notifications have disappeared 8.356
When I delete the persistent partition 3.020
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.056
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 8.240
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.568
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.952
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
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45.139
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 8.523
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.166
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.329
And all notifications have disappeared 8.338
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.265
And all tps features are enabled 1.079
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.907
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 33.104
And I enable persistence 21.024
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.427
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.723
And persistence is enabled 1.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.252
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.953
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.716
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.894
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 8.703
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.141
When I enable persistence 7.886
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.730
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 9.136
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.250
When I try to enable persistence 1.339
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.501
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.522
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.202
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.084
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 8.698
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.921
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.054
And all notifications have disappeared 10.629
# 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" 0.270
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.591
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.248
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.398
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.728
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 7.896
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.677
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.376
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.900
When I log in to a new session 11.189
And all notifications have disappeared 8.610
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.836
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000