Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4525 31 Jul 2026, 11:17

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 21:13.439 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:31.841
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 1:17.808
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.991
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.271
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.058
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 8.185
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.487
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.239
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.436
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 8.215
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.388
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.824
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.774
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.853
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
28.026
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 7.213
And the system is very low on memory 4.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.336
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.697
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.085
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.376
And I free up some memory 0.774
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.438
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.429
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 7.937
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
And all tps features are active 4.729
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.974
When I disable the first tps feature 2.510
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.741
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.349
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
12.769
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 7.393
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.564
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.411
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.820
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 7.089
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I disable the first tps feature 2.568
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.912
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.658
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 6.934
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 18.347
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.782
When I write some files expected to persist 1.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.685
# 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" 11.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.545
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 7.007
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 11.509
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.841
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.576
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.867
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.106
Tags: @product
38.250
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 8.151
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.076
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.144
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:49.659
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 8.380
When I enable persistence 18.393
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.624
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.360
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.330
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.225
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.518
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.865
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
When I cold reboot the computer 6.205
And the computer reboots Tails 36.228
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.263
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.178
Given I enable persistence 10.229
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.084
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.248
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.229
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:11.952
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 7.794
# 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 29.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.737
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.731
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
38.344
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 8.028
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.392
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.972
And all notifications have disappeared 7.802
When I delete the persistent partition 2.674
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.162
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 7.483
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.346
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.050
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
Tags: @product
51.043
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 7.886
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.039
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.508
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.053
And all notifications have disappeared 7.793
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.256
And all tps features are enabled 4.788
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:10.009
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 31.079
And I enable persistence 24.279
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.498
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.546
And persistence is enabled 5.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.826
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 6.943
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.370
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.076
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 7.755
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.663
When I enable persistence 9.158
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.925
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 7.627
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.468
When I try to enable persistence 1.307
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.180
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.309
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.159
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.692
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 7.500
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.563
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 9.314
And all notifications have disappeared 9.412
# 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" 0.154
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.102
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.157
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.231
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.907
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 7.281
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.474
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.328
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.010
When I log in to a new session 8.997
And all notifications have disappeared 8.445
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.476
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000