Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4461 19 Jun 2026, 11:33

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 23:47.196 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.434
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.128
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.673
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.302
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.416
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.491
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.638
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.297
And persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.699
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.013
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.375
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.003
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.967
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.796
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.310
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
31.933
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.070
And the system is very low on memory 4.212
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.206
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.810
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.113
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.569
And I free up some memory 1.001
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.854
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.702
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.430
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.484
And all tps features are active 5.753
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.165
When I disable the first tps feature 3.078
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.835
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.825
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.469
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
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15.175
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.065
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.072
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 3.203
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.128
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.872
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 3.085
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.960
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
52.147
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.579
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 14.091
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.771
When I write some files expected to persist 1.486
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.701
# 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" 13.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:56.329
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.872
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.426
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.393
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.918
And I capture all network traffic 0.042
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.954
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.391
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.067
Tags: @product
42.854
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.654
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.067
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.847
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:3.675
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.142
When I enable persistence 20.182
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.911
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.799
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.345
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.283
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.545
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.169
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.191
When I cold reboot the computer 9.389
And the computer reboots Tails 39.330
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.288
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.214
Given I enable persistence 11.330
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.289
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.034
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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2:27.309
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.185
# 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 29.008
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.024
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:16.399
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
Tags: @product
43.458
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.217
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.793
Then persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.781
And all notifications have disappeared 8.227
When I delete the persistent partition 2.813
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.095
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.445
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.565
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.740
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product
56.037
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 9.794
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.409
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.044
And all notifications have disappeared 7.927
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.427
And all tps features are enabled 6.037
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.947
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
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 34.727
And I enable persistence 25.803
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.827
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.626
And persistence is enabled 5.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.774
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
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 7.637
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.469
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.861
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.694
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.520
When I enable persistence 11.129
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.823
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 8.502
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.712
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.997
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.586
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.159
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.944
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.964
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.255
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.015
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 12.421
And all notifications have disappeared 9.489
# 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" 0.208
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.514
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.236
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.615
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.445
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.191
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.606
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.413
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.542
When I log in to a new session 11.711
And all notifications have disappeared 8.784
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.162
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000