Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4423 31 May 2026, 11:05

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 19:53.417 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.034
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 1:17.722
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.989
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.278
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.502
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 8.768
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.786
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.726
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 8.250
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.267
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.887
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.559
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 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
28.279
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 7.325
And the system is very low on memory 3.555
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.697
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.135
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.396
And I free up some memory 0.906
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.044
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.942
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 8.138
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.316
And all tps features are active 1.173
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.934
When I disable the first tps feature 2.536
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.072
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 1:2.261
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
12.731
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 enabled and logged in 7.314
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.474
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.538
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.018
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 7.346
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.567
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.943
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
38.937
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 7.084
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.661
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.217
When I write some files expected to persist 1.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.211
# 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" 11.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:39.587
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 6.946
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.543
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.230
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.080
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.054
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.419
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.047
Tags: @product
36.098
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 8.187
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.554
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:44.671
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 8.480
When I enable persistence 12.794
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.568
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.380
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.319
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.269
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.518
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.138
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
When I cold reboot the computer 9.924
And the computer reboots Tails 35.403
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.267
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.186
Given I enable persistence 7.279
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.261
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.507
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:9.296
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 8.260
# 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 28.389
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.248
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.776
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
36.794
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 8.044
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.670
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.418
And all notifications have disappeared 7.446
When I delete the persistent partition 2.692
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:19.587
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 7.893
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.359
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.074
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.032
Tags: @product
41.943
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 8.063
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.132
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.090
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.380
And all notifications have disappeared 7.653
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.334
And all tps features are enabled 1.080
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
59.625
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 30.202
And I enable persistence 17.478
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.713
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.666
And persistence is enabled 1.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
21.435
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 7.081
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.786
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.649
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 7.817
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.405
When I enable persistence 5.761
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.989
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 7.709
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.667
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.810
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.212
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.708
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 7.352
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.137
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.498
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.585
And all notifications have disappeared 9.115
# 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" 0.185
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.444
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.210
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.264
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.858
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 7.638
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.504
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.319
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.534
When I log in to a new session 10.028
And all notifications have disappeared 8.289
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.550
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000