Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4443 11 Jun 2026, 15:00

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 23:28.979 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.727
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.411
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.950
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.293
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.397
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.190
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.162
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
And persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.554
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.219
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.568
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.162
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.820
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 10.614
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.816
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.208
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
Tags: @product
31.006
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.524
And the system is very low on memory 3.493
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.180
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.720
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.096
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.455
And I free up some memory 0.924
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.512
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.281
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.471
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.428
And all tps features are active 5.562
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.883
When I disable the first tps feature 2.618
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.093
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.445
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
Tags: @product
14.558
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.349
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.140
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.101
When I disable the first tps feature 3.235
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.439
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.170
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.281
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.607
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.108
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
50.451
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.035
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 13.977
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.771
When I write some files expected to persist 1.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.003
# 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" 12.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:55.994
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.253
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 10.668
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.110
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.225
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.786
And I capture all network traffic 0.020
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.267
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.461
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
Tags: @product
42.773
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.059
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.291
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.884
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.712
When I enable persistence 18.023
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.143
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.917
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.389
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.224
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 5.549
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.703
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
When I cold reboot the computer 6.622
And the computer reboots Tails 42.389
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.284
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.213
Given I enable persistence 13.293
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.225
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.821
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
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2:20.958
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.122
# 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 29.506
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.994
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.979
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.042
Tags: @product
42.752
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.571
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.503
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.864
And all notifications have disappeared 8.491
When I delete the persistent partition 2.794
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.045
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.964
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.919
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.804
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
Tags: @product
53.445
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.779
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.477
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.622
And all notifications have disappeared 7.805
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.412
And all tps features are enabled 5.787
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.887
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
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 32.756
And I enable persistence 25.656
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.708
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.725
And persistence is enabled 6.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.805
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
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 8.086
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.980
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.186
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.580
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.487
When I enable persistence 11.296
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.197
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.505
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.681
When I try to enable persistence 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.329
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.475
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.170
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.988
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.608
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.132
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.687
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 0.024
When I log in to a new session 12.399
And all notifications have disappeared 10.164
# 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" 0.195
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.512
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.290
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.822
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.911
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.708
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.957
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.363
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.153
When I log in to a new session 12.889
And all notifications have disappeared 9.538
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.144
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000