Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4489 11 Jul 2026, 11:15

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 20:54.742 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.374
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 1:17.108
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.166
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.242
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.258
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 8.291
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.760
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.271
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.578
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 8.214
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.336
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.962
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.466
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.212
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.196
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
Tags: @product
28.386
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 7.292
And the system is very low on memory 4.036
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.180
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.603
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.087
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.361
And I free up some memory 0.813
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.962
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.685
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 8.257
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
And all tps features are active 4.858
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.875
When I disable the first tps feature 2.558
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.963
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.555
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.561
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
12.551
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 7.234
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.487
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 2.446
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.618
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.110
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.504
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.825
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.047
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 7.290
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 9.931
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.751
When I write some files expected to persist 1.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.262
# 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" 11.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.581
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 7.116
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 8.443
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.474
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.990
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.863
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.368
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.050
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
Tags: @product
37.571
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.449
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.091
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.986
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.549
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 8.391
When I enable persistence 16.343
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.737
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.429
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.281
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.210
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.474
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.877
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
When I cold reboot the computer 9.960
And the computer reboots Tails 35.951
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.249
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.173
Given I enable persistence 9.460
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.212
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.451
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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2:10.052
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 8.120
# 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 27.838
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.446
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.539
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
Tags: @product
37.846
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 8.410
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.069
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.609
And all notifications have disappeared 7.667
When I delete the persistent partition 2.699
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.285
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 7.621
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.322
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.093
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
47.645
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 8.201
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.395
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.408
And all notifications have disappeared 7.594
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.316
And all tps features are enabled 4.733
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.483
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 30.341
And I enable persistence 22.120
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.557
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.566
And persistence is enabled 4.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.814
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 6.868
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 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.064
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 8.178
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.200
When I enable persistence 10.510
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.349
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 7.823
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.767
When I try to enable persistence 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.954
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.324
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.146
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.430
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 7.495
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 7.874
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 10.264
And all notifications have disappeared 8.744
# 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" 0.192
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.103
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.205
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.420
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.565
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 7.617
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.535
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.294
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.184
When I log in to a new session 11.355
And all notifications have disappeared 8.964
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.718
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 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000