Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4413 24 May 2026, 11:08

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 19:56.641 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.339
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 1:15.584
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.745
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.242
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.022
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 8.539
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.821
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.247
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.698
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 8.452
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.129
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.157
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.437
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.965
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
28.061
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 7.408
And the system is very low on memory 3.647
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.140
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.480
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.096
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.368
And I free up some memory 0.860
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.011
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.214
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 7.938
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
And all tps features are active 1.348
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.967
When I disable the first tps feature 2.504
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.133
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.347
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.504
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
12.859
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 7.579
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.484
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.442
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.706
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 7.008
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.668
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.863
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
40.119
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 enabled and logged in 7.246
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.368
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.212
When I write some files expected to persist 1.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.259
# 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" 11.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:41.527
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 7.103
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.035
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.276
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.159
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.201
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.380
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.109
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.048
Tags: @product
37.787
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 8.276
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.606
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:41.509
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 8.420
When I enable persistence 13.664
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.627
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.487
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.340
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.300
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.511
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.716
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
When I cold reboot the computer 4.721
And the computer reboots Tails 35.969
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.264
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.186
Given I enable persistence 6.758
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.224
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.921
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
2:8.643
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 8.043
# 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 26.476
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.286
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.950
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
38.465
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 8.537
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.010
Then persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.864
And all notifications have disappeared 7.792
When I delete the persistent partition 2.784
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.541
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 7.518
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.253
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.493
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011
Tags: @product
40.003
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 7.976
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.154
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.785
And all notifications have disappeared 7.564
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.259
And all tps features are enabled 0.988
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
59.051
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 29.220
And I enable persistence 18.089
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.662
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.581
And persistence is enabled 1.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.756
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 7.124
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.089
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.762
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 7.996
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.290
When I enable persistence 6.600
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.105
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.344
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 7.393
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.688
When I try to enable persistence 1.378
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.093
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.328
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.147
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.389
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 7.365
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.997
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.563
And all notifications have disappeared 8.117
# 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" 0.196
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.132
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.207
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.366
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.838
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 7.624
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.688
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.344
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.927
When I log in to a new session 11.095
And all notifications have disappeared 7.906
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.393
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000