Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4403 19 May 2026, 14:37

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 21:59.318 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:50.495
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:36.134
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.089
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.286
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.349
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 9.601
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.766
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.324
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.634
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 8.683
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.895
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 9.776
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.185
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
30.238
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 7.937
And the system is very low on memory 4.224
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.241
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.619
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.152
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.426
And I free up some memory 0.876
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.711
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.407
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 8.920
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
And all tps features are active 1.222
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.320
When I disable the first tps feature 2.595
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.569
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.789
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.327
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.014
Tags: @product
13.786
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 8.194
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.672
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.482
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
14.077
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 7.819
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I disable the first tps feature 3.100
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.871
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.889
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 7.715
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 13.349
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.249
When I write some files expected to persist 1.371
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.835
# 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" 12.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:42.772
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 7.725
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.209
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.818
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.406
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.827
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.386
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.036
Tags: @product
43.749
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.192
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.078
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.912
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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3:0.698
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 9.057
When I enable persistence 16.698
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.705
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.089
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.414
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.369
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.615
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.590
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.188
When I cold reboot the computer 9.688
And the computer reboots Tails 39.920
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.298
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.305
Given I enable persistence 8.476
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.063
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.254
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.784
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:12.204
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 9.145
# 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 27.261
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.334
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.501
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
40.762
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 9.037
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.248
Then persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.086
And all notifications have disappeared 7.978
When I delete the persistent partition 2.758
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.627
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 8.956
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.985
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.272
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
45.472
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.144
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.929
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.592
And all notifications have disappeared 8.569
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.356
And all tps features are enabled 1.379
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:10.001
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 32.324
And I enable persistence 23.141
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.889
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.734
And persistence is enabled 1.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.459
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 7.659
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.239
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.362
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 9.225
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.345
When I enable persistence 6.926
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
28.027
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 8.646
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.091
When I try to enable persistence 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.763
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.656
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.159
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.181
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 8.379
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.645
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 12.701
And all notifications have disappeared 9.653
# 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" 0.195
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.525
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.277
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.495
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.119
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 8.614
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.748
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.416
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.428
When I log in to a new session 12.925
And all notifications have disappeared 8.225
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.560
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000