Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4431 04 Jun 2026, 15:57

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 21:23.797 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.206
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 1:22.621
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.444
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.260
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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31.794
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 8.877
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.155
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.761
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 8.725
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.227
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.901
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.150
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.187
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
29.450
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 7.390
And the system is very low on memory 3.939
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.291
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.875
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.110
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.385
And I free up some memory 0.831
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.579
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.288
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 8.989
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.301
And all tps features are active 1.186
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.932
When I disable the first tps feature 2.586
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.638
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.383
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011
Tags: @product
12.984
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 7.420
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.684
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.061
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.753
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 7.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I disable the first tps feature 3.016
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.025
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.759
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 7.732
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.639
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.266
When I write some files expected to persist 1.340
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.665
# 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" 13.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:44.910
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 7.342
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 10.173
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.479
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.469
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 12.714
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.376
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.052
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.042
Tags: @product
42.927
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.885
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.497
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:52.881
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 9.261
When I enable persistence 14.442
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.917
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.786
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.385
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.256
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.563
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.910
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.181
When I cold reboot the computer 6.443
And the computer reboots Tails 38.538
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.313
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.251
Given I enable persistence 8.854
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.097
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.351
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.179
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:14.155
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 7.750
# 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 29.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.070
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.174
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
40.577
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 8.176
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.669
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.772
And all notifications have disappeared 8.619
When I delete the persistent partition 2.850
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.369
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 7.622
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.685
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.715
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.023
Tags: @product
42.820
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 7.666
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.562
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.121
And all notifications have disappeared 7.763
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.316
And all tps features are enabled 1.027
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.701
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 31.879
And I enable persistence 20.423
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.934
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.718
And persistence is enabled 1.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.974
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 7.332
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.075
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.182
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.996
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.170
When I enable persistence 6.942
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
28.114
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 8.159
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.774
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.336
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 3.968
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.144
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.004
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 7.719
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.519
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 12.415
And all notifications have disappeared 9.623
# 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" 0.186
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.589
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.250
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.300
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.180
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 8.013
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.617
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.350
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.881
When I log in to a new session 12.105
And all notifications have disappeared 8.248
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.815
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000