Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4468 25 Jun 2026, 11:12

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 21:5.419 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.679
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:15.895
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.533
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.310
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.527
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.497
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.543
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.248
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.490
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.210
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.263
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.611
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.143
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.860
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.207
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
27.519
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.114
And the system is very low on memory 3.618
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.178
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.538
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.105
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.374
And I free up some memory 0.744
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.802
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.543
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.462
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.280
And all tps features are active 4.755
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.766
When I disable the first tps feature 2.500
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.934
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.576
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.081
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.072
Tags: @product
12.717
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.324
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I disable the first tps feature 2.494
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.514
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.797
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.197
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.564
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.848
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.113
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.055
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.880
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.845
When I write some files expected to persist 1.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.383
# 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" 11.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.597
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.180
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.333
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.100
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.299
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.520
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 12.501
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.404
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.094
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.059
Tags: @product
40.577
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.707
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.391
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.250
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.637
When I enable persistence 17.819
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.050
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.635
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.373
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.282
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.541
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.021
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 10.019
And the computer reboots Tails 35.494
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.241
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.188
Given I enable persistence 10.862
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.223
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.507
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:7.446
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.174
# 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 28.771
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.341
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.675
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
36.139
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.591
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.768
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.873
And all notifications have disappeared 7.575
When I delete the persistent partition 2.885
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.811
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.558
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.278
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.630
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
48.301
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.541
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.480
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.443
And all notifications have disappeared 7.802
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.275
And all tps features are enabled 4.932
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.418
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 28.769
And I enable persistence 23.268
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.295
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.585
And persistence is enabled 5.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.762
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 6.815
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.432
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.548
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.856
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.102
When I enable persistence 10.174
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.256
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.471
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.699
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.336
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.470
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.196
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.334
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.203
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.797
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 9.485
And all notifications have disappeared 9.679
# 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" 0.161
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.403
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.208
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.227
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.584
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.671
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.900
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.309
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.371
When I log in to a new session 10.500
And all notifications have disappeared 8.570
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.290
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000