Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4504 21 Jul 2026, 18:34

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 23:40.609 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:41.430
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:25.915
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.943
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.411
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.612
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 8.758
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.753
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.254
And persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.914
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.524
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.328
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.900
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.985
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.645
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.277
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
Tags: @product
33.163
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.689
And the system is very low on memory 4.981
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.281
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.869
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.270
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.419
And I free up some memory 0.823
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.739
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.873
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 8.757
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
And all tps features are active 6.830
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.883
When I disable the first tps feature 3.009
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.518
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.111
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.956
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product
13.495
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 7.763
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.668
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.621
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.152
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 8.235
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.730
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.923
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.279
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 7.820
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 13.826
And I take note of which tps features are available 5.184
When I write some files expected to persist 1.526
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.132
# 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" 13.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:4.757
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 8.155
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 10.406
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.166
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.390
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.985
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.863
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.483
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.067
Tags: @product
44.929
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 8.456
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.074
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.114
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:12.255
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 9.108
When I enable persistence 23.927
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.097
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.162
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.365
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.364
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.588
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.125
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.181
When I cold reboot the computer 6.475
And the computer reboots Tails 40.791
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.358
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.640
Given I enable persistence 14.774
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.093
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.328
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.703
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:11.229
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 8.032
# 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 26.590
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.764
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.457
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
Tags: @product
43.092
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 8.493
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.221
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.771
And all notifications have disappeared 8.487
When I delete the persistent partition 3.475
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:27.071
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 7.755
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.092
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.946
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
Tags: @product
55.017
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 7.417
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.427
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.971
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.911
And all notifications have disappeared 8.141
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.263
And all tps features are enabled 5.856
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.775
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 33.610
And I enable persistence 26.395
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.950
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.606
And persistence is enabled 7.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.840
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 7.488
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.772
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.177
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.009
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.538
When I enable persistence 11.475
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.613
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 7.918
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.335
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.347
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.529
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.158
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.428
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 7.958
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.633
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.111
And all notifications have disappeared 11.202
# 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" 0.170
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.500
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.216
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.381
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.498
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 8.197
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.221
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.373
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.676
When I log in to a new session 10.509
And all notifications have disappeared 10.267
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.321
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000