Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4464 22 Jun 2026, 11:35

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 23:24.012 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.915
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.204
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.574
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.311
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.049
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.351
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.285
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.410
And persistence is disabled 0.203
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.466
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.151
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.420
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.109
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.704
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.632
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.209
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
29.852
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.367
And the system is very low on memory 3.446
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.209
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.539
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.120
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.384
And I free up some memory 0.873
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.859
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.161
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.030
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.986
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And all tps features are active 6.651
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.341
When I disable the first tps feature 2.616
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.300
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.236
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.663
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
Tags: @product
14.149
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 8.584
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.640
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.903
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 8.211
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 2.612
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.881
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.871
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.039
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.869
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 13.733
And I take note of which tps features are available 5.256
When I write some files expected to persist 1.526
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.338
# 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" 13.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:56.946
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.054
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.598
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.657
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.223
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.355
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.327
And I capture all network traffic 0.017
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 12.003
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.557
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.094
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.082
Tags: @product
42.561
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.040
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.277
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.908
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:9.601
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 9.339
When I enable persistence 19.901
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.095
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.128
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.429
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.248
# 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 25.544
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 10.188
And the computer reboots Tails 41.618
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.261
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.186
Given I enable persistence 12.653
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.126
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.249
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.702
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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2:16.099
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 8.782
# 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 23.732
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.408
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:11.274
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
Tags: @product
40.800
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 8.682
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.793
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.986
And all notifications have disappeared 8.159
When I delete the persistent partition 2.690
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.550
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.042
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.884
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.113
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.332
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.971
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
52.496
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 8.062
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.354
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.653
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.818
And all notifications have disappeared 7.631
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.291
And all tps features are enabled 5.905
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.576
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 32.931
And I enable persistence 26.704
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.001
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.587
And persistence is enabled 7.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.877
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.640
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.621
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.086
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.041
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.787
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.361
When I enable persistence 12.530
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.660
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 8.159
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.514
When I try to enable persistence 1.314
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.230
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.447
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.168
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.851
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 8.370
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.877
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I log in to a new session 12.388
And all notifications have disappeared 10.003
# 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" 0.202
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.599
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.246
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.778
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.733
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.903
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.288
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.376
When I try to enable persistence 1.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.375
When I log in to a new session 13.359
And all notifications have disappeared 8.527
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.755
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000