Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4399 16 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 19:38.427 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.738
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 1:17.798
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.743
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.222
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.593
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 8.356
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.095
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.219
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.152
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 8.236
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.252
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.110
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.448
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.761
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.154
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
28.039
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.311
And the system is very low on memory 3.950
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.494
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.080
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.369
And I free up some memory 0.831
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.789
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.716
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 8.009
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
And all tps features are active 1.188
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.100
When I disable the first tps feature 2.487
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.229
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.290
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.994
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
12.729
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.438
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.483
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.431
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.571
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 7.082
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.458
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.851
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
37.717
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 7.078
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 8.298
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.197
When I write some files expected to persist 1.231
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.224
# 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" 11.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.419
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 7.079
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 8.501
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.219
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.245
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 12.653
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.365
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.041
Tags: @product
40.077
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 8.320
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.627
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:40.659
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 8.317
When I enable persistence 13.098
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.642
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.124
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.315
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.237
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.491
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.989
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
When I cold reboot the computer 8.691
And the computer reboots Tails 34.105
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.240
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.164
Given I enable persistence 6.589
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.226
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.090
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
2:7.954
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 7.887
# 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 27.461
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.276
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.929
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
35.542
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.473
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.222
Then persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.074
And all notifications have disappeared 7.729
When I delete the persistent partition 2.641
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:17.488
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 7.131
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.455
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.643
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.017
Tags: @product
38.969
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.275
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.727
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.669
And all notifications have disappeared 7.882
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.266
And all tps features are enabled 0.911
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:1.082
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 28.565
And I enable persistence 20.653
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.884
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.556
And persistence is enabled 1.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.215
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 6.907
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.801
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.887
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 7.344
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.195
When I enable persistence 6.519
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.357
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 7.205
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.339
When I try to enable persistence 1.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.912
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.282
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.140
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.849
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 7.191
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.514
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 9.560
And all notifications have disappeared 8.644
# 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" 0.240
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.088
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.160
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.317
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.664
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 7.203
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.411
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.321
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.541
When I log in to a new session 9.847
And all notifications have disappeared 7.950
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.379
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000