Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4486 09 Jul 2026, 07:56

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 22:20.496 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.925
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 1:20.203
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.484
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.312
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.497
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.746
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.135
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.841
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 9.066
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.340
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.724
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.432
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.835
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.241
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
Tags: @product
28.790
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 logged in 7.519
And the system is very low on memory 3.661
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.179
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.072
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.101
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.383
And I free up some memory 0.855
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.973
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.603
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.588
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
And all tps features are active 5.488
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.828
When I disable the first tps feature 2.530
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.503
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.010
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.813
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
13.203
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 7.360
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.105
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.086
When I disable the first tps feature 2.709
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.077
When I enable the first tps feature 2.614
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.987
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 7.289
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.616
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.896
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.358
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 7.171
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.386
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.486
When I write some files expected to persist 1.300
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.505
# 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" 12.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.978
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 7.320
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 10.014
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.459
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.728
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.608
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.426
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.138
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
Tags: @product
40.194
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 8.181
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.090
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.644
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.207
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 8.344
When I enable persistence 17.337
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.802
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.480
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.313
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.238
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.518
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.866
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
When I cold reboot the computer 9.334
And the computer reboots Tails 38.520
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.346
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.184
Given I enable persistence 11.086
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.057
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.260
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.191
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
Tags: @product
2:24.753
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 7.974
# 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 32.551
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.336
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.085
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.846
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 8.342
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.116
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.184
And all notifications have disappeared 8.042
When I delete the persistent partition 2.666
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.430
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 8.329
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.081
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.546
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.185
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
49.547
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 8.132
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.903
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.946
And all notifications have disappeared 7.754
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.363
And all tps features are enabled 5.138
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:12.311
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.966
And I enable persistence 24.447
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.033
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.589
And persistence is enabled 6.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.944
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
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 7.493
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.860
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.153
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 8.483
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.431
When I enable persistence 12.257
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.582
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 7.750
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.791
When I try to enable persistence 1.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.238
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.494
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.169
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.349
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 8.030
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.133
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I log in to a new session 11.511
And all notifications have disappeared 9.228
# 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" 0.238
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.106
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.274
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.470
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.989
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 7.873
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.104
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.322
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.333
When I log in to a new session 10.854
And all notifications have disappeared 9.660
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.906
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000