Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4393 13 May 2026, 02:30

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 21:2.309 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.390
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.321
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.606
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.352
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.682
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 8.343
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.954
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.616
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.317
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.394
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.270
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.608
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.551
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.221
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
29.382
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.954
And the system is very low on memory 3.838
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.161
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.964
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.454
And I free up some memory 0.996
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.846
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.361
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 8.508
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.356
And all tps features are active 1.358
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.570
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.074
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.945
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
13.634
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 7.608
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.108
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 3.082
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.495
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.236
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 7.533
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.522
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.970
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.425
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 7.542
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.837
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.348
When I write some files expected to persist 1.262
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.637
# 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" 12.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.714
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 7.621
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.002
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 9.576
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.184
And I capture all network traffic 0.015
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 11.535
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.413
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.042
Tags: @product
39.154
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.391
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.080
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.330
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
2:50.927
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 8.596
When I enable persistence 13.884
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.860
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.400
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.374
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.285
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.530
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.687
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 10.558
And the computer reboots Tails 38.849
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.341
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
Given I enable persistence 7.329
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.216
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.285
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.016
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2:9.036
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.606
# 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 27.783
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.370
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.458
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.023
Tags: @product
39.250
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 7.993
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.359
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.526
And all notifications have disappeared 8.169
When I delete the persistent partition 2.737
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.840
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 7.699
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.434
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.293
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.041
Tags: @product
42.629
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 8.716
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.035
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.294
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.345
And all notifications have disappeared 7.612
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.399
And all tps features are enabled 1.019
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.631
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 32.086
And I enable persistence 20.680
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.345
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.736
And persistence is enabled 1.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.005
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 7.177
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.307
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.239
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 8.175
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.490
When I enable persistence 6.758
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.785
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 8.033
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.251
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.710
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.139
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.475
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 7.877
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.754
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.964
And all notifications have disappeared 9.294
# 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" 0.163
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.505
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.246
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.463
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:335 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.887
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 8.023
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.143
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.364
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.258
When I log in to a new session 11.902
And all notifications have disappeared 7.886
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.307
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000