Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4524 30 Jul 2026, 22:05

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 23:33.939 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.994
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 1:18.086
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.852
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.246
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.119
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 9.073
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.935
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.229
And persistence is disabled 0.074
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.147
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 8.644
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.262
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.265
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.255
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.305
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
29.974
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 8.294
And the system is very low on memory 4.818
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.688
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.135
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.429
And I free up some memory 0.583
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.794
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.610
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 8.555
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
And all tps features are active 8.811
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.521
When I disable the first tps feature 2.539
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.671
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.826
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.707
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
Tags: @product
13.809
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 8.031
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.135
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.612
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.595
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.126
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.373
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 7.883
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.548
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.775
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.315
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.697
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 9.379
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.862
When I write some files expected to persist 1.427
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.432
# 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" 11.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.721
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 8.097
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 15.428
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.426
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.956
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 11.049
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.390
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.085
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
Tags: @product
39.919
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.787
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.199
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.037
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.761
When I enable persistence 23.866
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.105
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.147
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.431
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.317
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.553
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.860
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.122
When I cold reboot the computer 6.259
And the computer reboots Tails 34.838
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.217
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.118
Given I enable persistence 14.104
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.284
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.820
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product
2:21.845
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 22.124
# 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 27.564
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.552
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.995
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.313
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 8.192
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.719
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.899
And all notifications have disappeared 8.270
When I delete the persistent partition 2.816
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.856
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 8.064
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.275
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.260
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:0.699
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 8.282
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.217
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.231
And all notifications have disappeared 8.665
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.262
And all tps features are enabled 8.406
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:42.157
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 1:59.932
And I enable persistence 26.227
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.075
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.551
And persistence is enabled 8.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.821
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 7.507
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.851
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.432
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.474
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.941
When I enable persistence 13.432
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.020
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.209
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.012
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.188
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.404
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.156
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.663
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 7.703
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.385
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 9.707
And all notifications have disappeared 8.116
# 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" 0.225
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.070
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.159
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.990
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.106
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 8.127
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.041
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.248
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.754
When I log in to a new session 8.207
And all notifications have disappeared 6.842
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.047
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000