Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4418 27 May 2026, 13:05

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 20:30.195 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.905
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 1:22.849
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.912
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.294
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.215
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 9.169
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.988
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
And persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:44.680
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 8.792
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.197
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.085
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.841
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.251
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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29.797
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 7.624
And the system is very low on memory 3.774
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.161
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.114
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.128
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.453
And I free up some memory 0.988
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.512
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.240
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 8.953
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.390
And all tps features are active 1.213
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.185
When I disable the first tps feature 2.562
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.350
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.051
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.343
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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13.327
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 7.767
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.667
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.082
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.471
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.659
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 7.284
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 3.057
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.105
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.921
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 7.703
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.612
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.210
When I write some files expected to persist 1.374
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.578
# 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" 13.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:42.412
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 7.305
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.573
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.878
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.090
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.769
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.407
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.055
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39.471
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.714
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.088
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.139
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:46.483
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 8.903
When I enable persistence 14.062
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.754
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.373
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.385
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.260
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.490
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.993
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 8.815
And the computer reboots Tails 36.399
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.268
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.189
Given I enable persistence 7.073
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.219
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.887
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:5.902
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
# 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 25.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.155
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.050
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
36.328
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 8.008
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.790
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.975
And all notifications have disappeared 7.484
When I delete the persistent partition 2.667
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:18.144
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 7.187
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.383
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.321
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.012
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39.698
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 7.506
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.492
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.594
And all notifications have disappeared 7.575
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.245
And all tps features are enabled 1.077
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:0.480
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 29.778
And I enable persistence 18.540
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.908
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.639
And persistence is enabled 1.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.291
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 7.150
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.645
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.507
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 7.950
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.483
When I enable persistence 6.429
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.041
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.008
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 7.583
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.975
When I try to enable persistence 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.525
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.321
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.179
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.715
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 7.491
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.886
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 11.361
And all notifications have disappeared 7.808
# 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" 0.242
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.074
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.170
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.298
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.002
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 7.644
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.506
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.323
When I try to enable persistence 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.064
When I log in to a new session 10.472
And all notifications have disappeared 8.626
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.402
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000