Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4530 04 Aug 2026, 14:15

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 21:12.331 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.474
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 1:18.665
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.661
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.264
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.443
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 8.302
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.897
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.220
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.780
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 7.957
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.902
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.532
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.734
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.169
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
28.346
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 7.179
And the system is very low on memory 4.380
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.238
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.772
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.111
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.365
And I free up some memory 0.794
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.460
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.919
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 7.942
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And all tps features are active 5.098
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.814
When I disable the first tps feature 2.469
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.749
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.778
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.221
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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 7.352
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.569
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.440
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.548
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 6.963
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.519
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.890
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.141
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 7.076
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 9.364
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.052
When I write some files expected to persist 1.159
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.843
# 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" 11.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.946
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 7.100
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.168
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.471
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.260
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.178
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
Tags: @product
39.448
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.155
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.097
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.478
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 8.197
When I enable persistence 20.411
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.651
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.380
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.296
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.250
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 5.898
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.381
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
When I cold reboot the computer 6.150
And the computer reboots Tails 36.250
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.239
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.190
Given I enable persistence 10.531
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.084
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.209
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.051
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:11.058
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 8.021
# 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 31.151
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.441
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.188
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
40.740
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 8.101
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.059
Then persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.280
And all notifications have disappeared 8.223
When I delete the persistent partition 2.609
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.689
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 7.154
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.934
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.295
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
50.224
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 7.487
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.377
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.373
And all notifications have disappeared 7.669
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.247
And all tps features are enabled 4.786
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:10.579
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 31.276
And I enable persistence 24.206
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.547
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.548
And persistence is enabled 5.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
24.685
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 6.970
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.166
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.610
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.389
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.898
When I enable persistence 10.179
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.635
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 7.340
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.299
When I try to enable persistence 1.255
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.122
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.290
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.181
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.258
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 7.278
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.644
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 10.301
And all notifications have disappeared 9.723
# 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" 0.163
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.584
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.182
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.240
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.551
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 7.120
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.996
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.339
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.883
When I log in to a new session 10.102
And all notifications have disappeared 8.961
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.255
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000