Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4415 26 May 2026, 11:14

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 20:56.675 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.658
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 1:20.997
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.560
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.235
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.368
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 9.079
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.664
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.224
And persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.352
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.468
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.385
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.016
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.103
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.013
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
29.592
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 7.498
And the system is very low on memory 3.800
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.170
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.061
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.112
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.398
And I free up some memory 0.966
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.535
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.322
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 8.475
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.476
And all tps features are active 1.284
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.928
When I disable the first tps feature 2.554
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.338
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.793
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.489
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
13.114
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 7.568
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.125
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.558
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.407
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.459
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 7.421
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 2.756
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.049
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.185
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 7.591
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.761
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.288
When I write some files expected to persist 1.292
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.588
# 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" 12.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.780
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 7.414
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 10.121
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.138
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.502
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.006
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 11.958
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.407
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.072
Tags: @product
40.524
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.552
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.119
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.665
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
2:47.787
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 8.866
When I enable persistence 13.375
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.943
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.683
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.401
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.517
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.797
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.188
When I cold reboot the computer 9.115
And the computer reboots Tails 37.161
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.291
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.238
Given I enable persistence 7.287
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.223
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.211
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.030
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2:13.685
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 8.451
# 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 28.826
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.445
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.859
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
40.207
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 8.469
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.743
Then persistence is disabled 0.263
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.599
And all notifications have disappeared 8.068
When I delete the persistent partition 2.654
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.484
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 7.732
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.235
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.515
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.764
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
42.174
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 8.530
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.404
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.447
And all notifications have disappeared 7.705
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.302
And all tps features are enabled 1.172
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.966
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.011
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 31.367
And I enable persistence 19.700
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.401
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.662
And persistence is enabled 1.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.433
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 6.980
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.959
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.478
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 8.176
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.798
When I enable persistence 6.754
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.041
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.643
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.030
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.438
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.805
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.292
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.385
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.171
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.288
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.856
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.129
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.295
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.921
And all notifications have disappeared 9.866
# 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" 0.182
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.596
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.185
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.253
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.163
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 8.122
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.135
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.372
When I try to enable persistence 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.077
When I log in to a new session 11.301
And all notifications have disappeared 9.654
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.685
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000