Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4401 18 May 2026, 11:06

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 21:19.065 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.308
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 1:20.997
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.031
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.288
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.313
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 8.820
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.579
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
And persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.375
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 8.724
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.352
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.536
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.658
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.717
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
29.055
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 7.535
And the system is very low on memory 3.567
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.204
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.746
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.396
And I free up some memory 0.806
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.626
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.864
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 8.449
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.344
And all tps features are active 1.344
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.142
When I disable the first tps feature 2.647
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.251
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.490
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.972
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.010
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13.449
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 7.995
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.584
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.042
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.442
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.902
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 7.220
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.550
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.943
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
43.843
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 7.369
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.573
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.219
When I write some files expected to persist 1.374
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.386
# 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" 12.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:54.679
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 19.728
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.543
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.195
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.508
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.296
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.764
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.418
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.050
Tags: @product
42.292
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.947
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.094
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.270
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:47.392
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 8.316
When I enable persistence 13.831
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.763
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.787
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.355
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.246
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.612
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.028
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 6.335
And the computer reboots Tails 38.235
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.383
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
Given I enable persistence 8.663
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.230
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.923
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:25.000
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 8.621
# 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 31.728
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.723
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:13.251
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.027
Tags: @product
38.778
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 8.025
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.044
Then persistence is disabled 0.133
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.641
And all notifications have disappeared 7.911
When I delete the persistent partition 2.672
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.422
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 8.110
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.421
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.587
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
41.912
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 8.259
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.591
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.844
And all notifications have disappeared 7.650
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.259
And all tps features are enabled 0.974
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.526
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.824
And I enable persistence 21.197
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.177
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.586
And persistence is enabled 1.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.823
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 7.393
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.872
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.132
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 8.900
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.730
When I enable persistence 6.782
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.523
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 7.859
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.160
When I try to enable persistence 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.352
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.369
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.161
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.218
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 7.935
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.748
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.137
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 11.417
And all notifications have disappeared 9.117
# 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" 0.145
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.090
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.234
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.431
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.249
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 7.885
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.199
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.345
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.179
When I log in to a new session 10.693
And all notifications have disappeared 8.414
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.507
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000