Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4490 12 Jul 2026, 11:23

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 21:2.662 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.555
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 1:16.428
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.809
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.237
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.533
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 8.246
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.045
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.027
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 8.244
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.319
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.070
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.767
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.168
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
27.938
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 7.293
And the system is very low on memory 3.456
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.356
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.611
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 2.338
And I free up some memory 0.797
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.908
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.959
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 8.121
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
And all tps features are active 4.946
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.920
When I disable the first tps feature 2.468
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.253
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.197
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
12.537
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 7.182
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.521
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 7.032
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.511
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.810
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.346
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 6.965
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.184
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.761
When I write some files expected to persist 1.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.794
# 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" 11.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.223
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 7.231
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.859
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.223
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.810
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 11.373
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.376
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.100
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
Tags: @product
37.933
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.240
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.217
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:47.946
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 8.370
When I enable persistence 16.563
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.619
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.268
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.339
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.221
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.477
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.677
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.176
When I cold reboot the computer 6.170
And the computer reboots Tails 35.232
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.243
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.155
Given I enable persistence 10.610
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.203
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.388
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
2:10.478
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 8.137
# 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 27.804
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.435
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.130
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.140
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 8.265
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.527
Then persistence is disabled 0.159
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.447
And all notifications have disappeared 7.772
When I delete the persistent partition 2.629
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.660
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 8.100
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.095
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.333
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.769
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product
48.086
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 8.005
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.306
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.204
And all notifications have disappeared 7.504
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.296
And all tps features are enabled 4.605
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.975
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 30.298
And I enable persistence 22.417
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.551
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.575
And persistence is enabled 5.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.786
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 7.095
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.128
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.532
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 8.360
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.948
When I enable persistence 10.632
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.206
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 7.892
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.522
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.716
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.390
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.167
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.525
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 7.532
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.651
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I log in to a new session 10.788
And all notifications have disappeared 9.078
# 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" 0.283
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.486
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.208
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.332
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.745
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 8.024
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.202
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.307
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.021
When I log in to a new session 10.482
And all notifications have disappeared 9.051
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.783
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000