Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4505 21 Jul 2026, 19:49

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 21:45.106 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.078
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.851
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.710
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.351
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.605
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 8.417
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.075
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.260
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.524
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 8.665
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.970
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.040
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.151
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
30.553
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 7.319
And the system is very low on memory 5.523
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.233
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.493
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.122
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.376
And I free up some memory 0.847
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.534
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.120
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.247
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
And all tps features are active 5.594
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.152
When I disable the first tps feature 2.598
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.333
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.822
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.170
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
Tags: @product
13.239
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 7.715
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.570
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.103
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.462
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.147
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 7.161
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.633
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.178
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.869
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 7.353
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 13.930
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.368
When I write some files expected to persist 1.331
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.419
# 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" 12.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.690
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 7.195
And the network is plugged 0.065
And Tor is ready 10.658
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.952
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.585
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.471
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.446
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.082
Tags: @product
40.860
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 8.258
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.055
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.215
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:56.704
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 8.495
When I enable persistence 19.655
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.968
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.771
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.329
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.315
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.495
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.572
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
When I cold reboot the computer 6.100
And the computer reboots Tails 38.110
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.288
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.196
Given I enable persistence 11.448
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.343
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.227
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:10.353
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 8.087
# 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 31.265
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.468
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.358
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
Tags: @product
38.781
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 7.585
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.177
Then persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.981
And all notifications have disappeared 7.879
When I delete the persistent partition 2.688
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.505
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 7.454
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.351
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.393
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
48.906
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 7.292
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.701
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.494
And all notifications have disappeared 7.819
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.245
And all tps features are enabled 4.677
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.435
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.353
And I enable persistence 25.055
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.086
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.673
And persistence is enabled 5.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.803
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 6.857
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.464
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.121
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 7.657
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.603
When I enable persistence 10.267
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.910
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 7.045
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.903
When I try to enable persistence 1.311
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.204
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.273
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.147
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.491
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 7.226
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.131
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.587
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.058
And all notifications have disappeared 9.201
# 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 0.504
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.175
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.358
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.402
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 7.269
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.264
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.337
When I try to enable persistence 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.294
When I log in to a new session 9.877
And all notifications have disappeared 9.296
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.297
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000