Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4441 11 Jun 2026, 07:47

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 20:57.704 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.297
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 1:19.920
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.175
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.235
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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31.178
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 9.398
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.080
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.411
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 8.325
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.172
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.538
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 9.783
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.036
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
29.791
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 logged in 7.390
And the system is very low on memory 4.579
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.189
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.619
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.124
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.373
And I free up some memory 0.786
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.664
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.357
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 8.554
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
And all tps features are active 1.178
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.868
When I disable the first tps feature 2.542
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.645
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.028
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
13.778
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 7.858
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.127
When I disable the first tps feature 3.013
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.432
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.551
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 7.290
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.130
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I disable the first tps feature 3.139
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.845
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
40.666
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 7.481
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.869
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.195
When I write some files expected to persist 1.428
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.703
# 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" 12.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:45.169
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 7.253
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 9.679
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.165
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.560
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.331
And I capture all network traffic 0.018
And the network is plugged 0.074
And Tor is ready 12.462
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.377
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.128
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.044
Tags: @product
40.276
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 8.562
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.987
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:50.780
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 8.839
When I enable persistence 14.542
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.085
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.844
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.312
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.225
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.534
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.075
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.188
When I cold reboot the computer 9.251
And the computer reboots Tails 37.526
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.253
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.240
Given I enable persistence 7.148
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.238
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.233
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.042
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2:13.361
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 8.536
# 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 27.977
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.514
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.981
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
38.235
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 7.993
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.062
Then persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.961
And all notifications have disappeared 7.779
When I delete the persistent partition 2.800
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.238
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 8.030
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.415
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.485
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011
Tags: @product
42.800
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 7.669
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.146
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.218
And all notifications have disappeared 8.000
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.831
And all tps features are enabled 1.413
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.180
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 29.901
And I enable persistence 22.903
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.159
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.611
And persistence is enabled 1.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.544
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 7.328
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.631
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.117
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 7.803
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.099
When I enable persistence 7.458
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.075
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.383
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 7.330
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.785
When I try to enable persistence 1.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.438
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.271
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.162
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.217
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 7.592
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.460
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.118
And all notifications have disappeared 9.074
# 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" 0.132
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.094
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.189
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.226
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.366
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 7.517
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.557
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.288
When I try to enable persistence 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.136
When I log in to a new session 11.890
And all notifications have disappeared 7.762
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.856
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000