Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4400 17 May 2026, 11:09

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 19:55.586 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.363
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 1:16.345
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.810
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.372
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.767
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
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.857
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
And persistence is disabled 0.128
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.648
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 8.561
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.340
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.400
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.858
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.219
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.051
Tags: @product
28.689
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 7.281
And the system is very low on memory 4.114
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.210
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.722
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 2.372
And I free up some memory 0.845
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.997
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.965
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 8.392
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And all tps features are active 1.219
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.766
When I disable the first tps feature 2.515
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.327
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.197
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
13.001
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 7.571
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.109
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.537
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 2.427
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.849
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 enabled and logged in 7.255
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.599
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.809
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
38.294
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 7.392
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 8.497
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.148
When I write some files expected to persist 1.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.436
# 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" 11.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:41.846
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 7.248
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.316
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.107
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.381
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.200
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.991
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.360
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.122
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.049
Tags: @product
39.466
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 8.299
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.083
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.197
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:41.363
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 8.588
When I enable persistence 12.640
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.723
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.387
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.255
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.465
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.507
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
When I cold reboot the computer 6.233
And the computer reboots Tails 35.996
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.261
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.198
Given I enable persistence 6.812
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.218
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.358
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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2:10.913
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 8.383
# 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 28.614
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.433
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.448
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.019
Tags: @product
37.703
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 7.693
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.746
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.863
And all notifications have disappeared 7.975
When I delete the persistent partition 2.972
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.261
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 7.525
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.645
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.798
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.028
Tags: @product
39.852
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 7.329
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.393
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.946
And all notifications have disappeared 7.758
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.240
And all tps features are enabled 0.949
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
58.550
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 28.756
And I enable persistence 17.873
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.755
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.620
And persistence is enabled 1.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.178
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 6.876
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.776
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.201
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 7.739
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.274
When I enable persistence 6.514
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.038
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.996
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 7.392
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.225
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.312
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.360
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.163
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.680
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 7.542
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.250
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.501
And all notifications have disappeared 8.928
# 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" 0.153
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.593
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.218
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.300
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.990
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 7.524
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.464
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.315
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.398
When I log in to a new session 10.769
And all notifications have disappeared 9.813
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.760
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000