Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4436 07 Jun 2026, 11:15

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 20:37.862 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.557
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 1:20.336
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.915
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.606
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 8.578
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.986
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.256
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.583
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 8.498
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.335
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.379
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.445
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.437
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.233
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
30.963
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 7.816
And the system is very low on memory 3.903
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.195
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.639
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.192
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.362
And I free up some memory 0.886
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.920
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.066
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 8.420
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.362
And all tps features are active 1.153
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.460
When I disable the first tps feature 2.641
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.159
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.468
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.935
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.019
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13.157
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 7.807
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.511
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 2.440
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.272
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 7.449
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.672
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.962
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.478
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 7.262
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 13.305
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.222
When I write some files expected to persist 1.216
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.393
# 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" 12.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:46.536
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 7.119
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.706
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.407
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.047
And I capture all network traffic 0.014
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.510
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.411
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.044
Tags: @product
38.716
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.006
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.100
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:47.169
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 8.976
When I enable persistence 13.009
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.738
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.456
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.228
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.494
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.869
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.193
When I cold reboot the computer 8.894
And the computer reboots Tails 36.738
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.291
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.178
Given I enable persistence 6.813
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.229
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.500
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
2:6.780
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 7.862
# 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 24.546
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.351
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.374
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
37.677
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 7.703
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.321
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.676
And all notifications have disappeared 7.703
When I delete the persistent partition 2.850
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:21.555
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 7.425
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.900
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.885
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.030
Tags: @product
42.326
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 7.724
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.018
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.829
And all notifications have disappeared 7.658
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.267
And all tps features are enabled 1.399
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.933
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 30.400
And I enable persistence 20.886
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.072
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.600
And persistence is enabled 1.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.540
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 7.065
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.770
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.199
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.034
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.532
When I enable persistence 6.794
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.114
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 7.761
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.997
When I try to enable persistence 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.160
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.325
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.139
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.338
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 7.691
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.775
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 11.864
And all notifications have disappeared 8.440
# 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" 0.190
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.069
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.383
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.466
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.286
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 7.352
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.665
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.363
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.885
When I log in to a new session 10.991
And all notifications have disappeared 8.678
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.413
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000