Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4421 29 May 2026, 11:17

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 20:52.697 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.745
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.649
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.812
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.403
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.471
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 8.497
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.248
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.638
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 8.775
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.148
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.870
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.470
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.761
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.203
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
28.631
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 7.629
And the system is very low on memory 3.407
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.192
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.763
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.208
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.470
And I free up some memory 0.892
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.012
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.151
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 8.154
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
And all tps features are active 1.459
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.281
When I disable the first tps feature 2.634
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.241
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.663
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.016
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.016
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12.737
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 7.414
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.045
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.504
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.101
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 7.563
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.525
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.843
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
43.730
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 7.385
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.545
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.269
When I write some files expected to persist 1.319
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.709
# 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" 12.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.381
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 7.910
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.990
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.184
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.698
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.054
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 11.825
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.441
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.094
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.070
Tags: @product
43.740
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.878
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.099
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.712
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:51.014
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 8.599
When I enable persistence 13.323
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.986
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.784
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.339
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" 4.548
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.680
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
When I cold reboot the computer 8.977
And the computer reboots Tails 38.593
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.301
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.250
Given I enable persistence 8.545
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.245
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.196
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:5.845
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 8.259
# 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 24.943
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.558
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.633
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
39.832
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 8.365
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.830
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.368
And all notifications have disappeared 8.005
When I delete the persistent partition 2.762
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:24.250
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 7.822
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.603
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.540
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
42.983
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 8.212
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.107
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.818
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.459
And all notifications have disappeared 7.666
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.300
And all tps features are enabled 1.081
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:4.800
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 31.496
And I enable persistence 20.723
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.063
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.751
And persistence is enabled 1.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.251
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 7.413
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.285
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.719
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 8.288
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.763
When I enable persistence 6.949
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.562
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 7.735
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.607
When I try to enable persistence 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.142
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.481
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.144
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.124
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 7.878
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.721
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.299
And all notifications have disappeared 9.452
# 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" 0.179
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.708
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.269
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.438
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.981
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 7.755
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.676
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.509
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.178
When I log in to a new session 10.061
And all notifications have disappeared 9.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.582
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000