Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4419 27 May 2026, 19:27

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 20:46.034 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.144
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 1:19.826
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.097
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.252
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.298
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 8.864
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.424
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.274
And persistence is disabled 0.168
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:41.010
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.350
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.017
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.724
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.218
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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28.184
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 7.186
And the system is very low on memory 3.499
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.670
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.168
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.396
And I free up some memory 0.810
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.260
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.677
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 8.245
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 1.280
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.903
When I disable the first tps feature 2.470
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.297
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.640
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.376
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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12.865
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 7.312
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.636
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.509
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.002
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 7.287
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.541
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.992
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
43.328
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 7.453
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.364
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.263
When I write some files expected to persist 1.350
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.435
# 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" 12.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.208
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 7.117
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 8.740
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.189
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.614
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.047
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.976
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.328
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.054
Tags: @product
40.760
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 8.384
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.113
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:47.131
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.366
When I enable persistence 13.769
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.025
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.963
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.410
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.299
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.598
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.808
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
When I cold reboot the computer 6.179
And the computer reboots Tails 37.987
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.260
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.196
Given I enable persistence 7.399
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.233
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.187
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.040
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2:15.090
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 8.002
# 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 29.214
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.581
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.560
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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39.603
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 8.169
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.162
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.033
And all notifications have disappeared 8.030
When I delete the persistent partition 2.730
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:23.041
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 8.040
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.957
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.733
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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41.338
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 8.495
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.418
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.103
And all notifications have disappeared 7.644
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.298
And all tps features are enabled 0.990
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:4.370
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.015
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 31.415
And I enable persistence 20.687
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.783
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.615
And persistence is enabled 1.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.678
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 7.030
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.122
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.691
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 8.087
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.039
When I enable persistence 6.789
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.938
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 7.872
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.579
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.376
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.323
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.145
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.668
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 8.011
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.796
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 11.559
And all notifications have disappeared 8.681
# 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" 0.240
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.470
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.230
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.416
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.001
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 7.548
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.129
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.589
When I log in to a new session 11.435
And all notifications have disappeared 8.551
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.324
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000