Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4497 16 Jul 2026, 11:11

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 21:1.051 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.171
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 1:15.050
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.066
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.267
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.994
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 8.037
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.008
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.227
And persistence is disabled 0.135
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.680
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 8.054
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.988
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 9.351
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.617
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
29.408
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 7.426
And the system is very low on memory 4.291
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.185
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.646
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.091
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.410
And I free up some memory 0.824
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.477
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.622
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 8.176
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 4.917
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.716
When I disable the first tps feature 2.459
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.765
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.460
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.254
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
12.523
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 7.229
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.511
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.390
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.405
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 6.849
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.510
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.884
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.074
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 7.029
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.848
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.962
When I write some files expected to persist 1.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.297
# 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" 11.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.891
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 7.093
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 9.563
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.312
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.873
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.191
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.411
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
Tags: @product
39.530
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.156
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.092
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.840
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.719
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 8.160
When I enable persistence 19.506
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.775
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.164
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.404
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.523
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.792
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
When I cold reboot the computer 8.719
And the computer reboots Tails 35.734
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.284
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.202
Given I enable persistence 10.425
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.257
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.215
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
2:9.091
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 7.798
# 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 29.602
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.410
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.189
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
38.020
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 7.612
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.137
Then persistence is disabled 0.072
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.379
And all notifications have disappeared 7.791
When I delete the persistent partition 2.638
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.044
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 7.182
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.217
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.396
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
Tags: @product
48.242
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 7.758
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.138
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.037
And all notifications have disappeared 7.659
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.301
And all tps features are enabled 4.485
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:10.221
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 31.679
And I enable persistence 23.095
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.524
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.579
And persistence is enabled 5.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.423
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 6.816
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.098
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.975
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.656
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.509
When I enable persistence 9.476
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.762
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 7.742
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.836
When I try to enable persistence 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.609
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.343
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.135
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.998
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 7.619
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.111
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.149
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 0.023
When I log in to a new session 9.835
And all notifications have disappeared 8.590
# 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" 0.191
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.078
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.172
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.203
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.249
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 7.686
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.451
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.352
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.071
When I log in to a new session 9.903
And all notifications have disappeared 8.492
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.391
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000