Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4533 06 Aug 2026, 11:20

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 24:13.994 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.411
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 1:17.956
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.556
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.219
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.161
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 8.234
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.782
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.166
And persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.706
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 8.742
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.721
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.207
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.328
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.209
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
Tags: @product
31.124
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 8.288
And the system is very low on memory 5.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.250
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.492
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.386
And I free up some memory 0.462
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.982
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.059
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 8.134
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
And all tps features are active 8.696
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.873
When I disable the first tps feature 2.548
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.343
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.156
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.623
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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40.089
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 34.604
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.567
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.103
When I enable the first tps feature 2.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.503
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 7.866
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 3.624
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.839
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.374
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.085
And the network is plugged 0.045
And Tor is ready 11.516
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.661
When I write some files expected to persist 1.206
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.459
# 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" 12.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.497
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 7.632
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 10.164
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.156
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.518
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.753
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 20.649
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.096
Tags: @product
41.317
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 9.015
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.113
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.619
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.337
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.009
When I enable persistence 23.562
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.054
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.228
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.447
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.325
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.554
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.112
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.112
When I cold reboot the computer 5.963
And the computer reboots Tails 35.171
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.277
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.111
Given I enable persistence 15.347
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.215
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.657
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:5.077
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 8.939
# 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 25.992
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.456
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.095
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
Tags: @product
40.391
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 8.458
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.170
Then persistence is disabled 0.168
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.483
And all notifications have disappeared 7.945
When I delete the persistent partition 2.826
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.558
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 8.411
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.508
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.359
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
Tags: @product
59.300
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.392
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.435
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.646
And all notifications have disappeared 8.213
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.220
And all tps features are enabled 7.926
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:44.784
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 2:0.358
And I enable persistence 27.856
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.822
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.511
And persistence is enabled 8.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.988
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 7.665
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.747
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.020
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.589
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.405
When I enable persistence 13.812
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.439
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 8.202
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.041
When I try to enable persistence 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.708
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.115
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.194
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.545
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 8.511
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.305
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.117
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 9.183
And all notifications have disappeared 7.250
# 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" 0.132
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.098
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.219
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.324
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.301
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.621
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.084
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.346
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.134
When I log in to a new session 7.938
And all notifications have disappeared 7.227
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.758
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000