Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4392 12 May 2026, 13:23

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 23:21.704 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.482
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 1:22.336
And I update APT using apt 6.847
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.314
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.107
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 8.556
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.557
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.232
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.115
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 9.193
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.158
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.522
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.926
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.559
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.200
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
30.153
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.167
And the system is very low on memory 3.868
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.238
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.339
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.139
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.449
And I free up some memory 0.955
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.927
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.392
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 8.922
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.397
And all tps features are active 1.359
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.040
When I disable the first tps feature 2.474
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.215
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.419
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.449
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.019
Tags: @product
13.586
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 7.315
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.190
When I disable the first tps feature 3.099
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.095
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.518
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.421
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 7.635
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.115
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 2.647
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.897
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:1.522
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 7.828
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 19.274
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.267
When I write some files expected to persist 1.451
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.517
# 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" 13.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:31.319
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.314
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 18.223
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.156
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.149
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.545
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.490
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.102
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.060
Tags: @product
42.192
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.514
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.331
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:58.631
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 10.001
When I enable persistence 15.251
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.133
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.122
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.377
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.278
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.545
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.926
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.192
When I cold reboot the computer 6.346
And the computer reboots Tails 40.714
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.310
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.236
Given I enable persistence 10.303
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.090
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.302
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.317
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:31.969
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 9.771
# 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 30.450
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.189
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:22.744
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
42.449
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 8.535
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.378
Then persistence is disabled 0.143
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.438
And all notifications have disappeared 8.826
When I delete the persistent partition 2.788
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.147
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 8.624
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.087
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.881
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.155
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
46.626
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.833
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.792
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.385
And all notifications have disappeared 8.361
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.914
And all tps features are enabled 1.769
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:13.295
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 35.658
And I enable persistence 23.027
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.268
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.912
And persistence is enabled 2.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.044
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.016
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 7.409
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.030
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
29.230
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 9.631
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.106
When I enable persistence 7.421
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
28.103
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 8.689
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.758
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.683
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.190
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.236
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 8.518
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.753
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 12.541
And all notifications have disappeared 10.059
# 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" 0.196
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.635
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.236
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.483
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.675
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 8.233
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.050
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.372
When I try to enable persistence 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.710
When I log in to a new session 11.434
And all notifications have disappeared 9.904
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.831
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000