Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4427 02 Jun 2026, 11:09

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 19:39.442 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.471
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 1:17.370
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.887
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.241
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.950
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 8.428
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.034
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.223
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.891
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 8.424
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.316
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.120
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.382
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.258
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.185
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
27.895
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 7.259
And the system is very low on memory 3.355
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.197
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.732
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.120
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.398
And I free up some memory 0.805
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.977
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.828
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 8.235
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.368
And all tps features are active 1.171
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.094
When I disable the first tps feature 2.507
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.492
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.657
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
12.736
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 7.366
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.692
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 7.124
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.579
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.817
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.847
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 7.257
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.990
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.204
When I write some files expected to persist 1.145
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.358
# 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" 11.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.581
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 7.190
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.016
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.215
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.951
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.479
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.404
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.056
Tags: @product
39.410
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 8.475
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.136
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.835
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:42.799
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 8.394
When I enable persistence 12.135
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.625
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.345
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.358
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.508
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.109
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
When I cold reboot the computer 8.759
And the computer reboots Tails 35.382
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.261
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.213
Given I enable persistence 6.951
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.239
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.905
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.041
Tags: @product
2:0.949
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 7.927
# 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 23.688
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.022
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.080
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.022
Tags: @product
36.747
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 7.620
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.877
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.358
And all notifications have disappeared 7.686
When I delete the persistent partition 2.771
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:15.895
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 7.355
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.278
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.989
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.005
Tags: @product
39.558
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 7.581
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.141
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.534
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.970
And all notifications have disappeared 7.918
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.258
And all tps features are enabled 1.067
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
59.173
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 29.445
And I enable persistence 18.311
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.446
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.565
And persistence is enabled 1.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
21.345
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 6.880
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.902
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.986
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 8.127
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.451
When I enable persistence 6.660
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.538
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 7.774
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.546
When I try to enable persistence 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.210
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.338
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.144
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.906
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 7.575
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.130
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.566
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 11.043
And all notifications have disappeared 8.743
# 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 0.111
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.161
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.345
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.235
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 7.523
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.472
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.405
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.934
When I log in to a new session 10.305
And all notifications have disappeared 8.206
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.399
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000