Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4394 13 May 2026, 11:07

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 19:57.810 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.064
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.813
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.071
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.253
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.283
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 8.452
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.066
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.478
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 8.168
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.336
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.337
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.442
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.813
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.190
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
30.164
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.472
And the system is very low on memory 4.850
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.141
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.726
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.159
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.394
And I free up some memory 0.968
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.406
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.793
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 8.326
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
And all tps features are active 1.181
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.900
When I disable the first tps feature 2.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.951
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.450
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
13.141
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 enabled and logged in 7.742
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.451
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.738
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 7.154
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 2.540
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.843
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.442
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 7.099
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.715
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.168
When I write some files expected to persist 1.301
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.283
# 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" 11.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:42.841
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 7.051
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.858
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.111
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.285
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.082
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.858
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.388
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.036
Tags: @product
38.267
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.376
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.071
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.703
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:40.466
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 8.447
When I enable persistence 12.957
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.753
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.484
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.296
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.243
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.524
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.168
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.209
When I cold reboot the computer 6.086
And the computer reboots Tails 35.805
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.257
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.157
Given I enable persistence 7.088
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.095
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.280
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.447
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
2:6.638
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 enabled and logged in 8.001
# 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 26.023
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.921
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.833
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
39.093
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.294
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.853
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.527
And all notifications have disappeared 7.738
When I delete the persistent partition 3.227
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:19.201
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 7.249
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.276
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.401
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
40.704
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 8.202
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.017
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.015
And all notifications have disappeared 7.601
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.261
And all tps features are enabled 1.100
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:0.716
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 29.439
And I enable persistence 19.439
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.857
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.546
And persistence is enabled 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.528
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 6.932
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.990
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.724
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 7.691
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.784
When I enable persistence 6.593
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.215
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 7.486
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.791
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.025
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.366
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.161
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.550
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 7.429
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.222
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 0.027
When I log in to a new session 9.943
And all notifications have disappeared 9.440
# 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" 0.329
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.405
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.159
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.243
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.755
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 7.527
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.654
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.359
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.171
When I log in to a new session 10.761
And all notifications have disappeared 9.033
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.419
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000