Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4535 08 Aug 2026, 11:22

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 24:3.761 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.425
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.995
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.419
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.275
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.613
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 9.124
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.534
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.214
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.653
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 8.542
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.273
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.503
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.884
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product
30.375
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 8.053
And the system is very low on memory 4.900
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.228
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.510
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.120
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.444
And I free up some memory 0.484
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.555
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.597
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 8.864
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And all tps features are active 8.394
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.224
When I disable the first tps feature 2.544
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.544
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.880
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.770
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.965
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 8.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 2.555
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.067
When I enable the first tps feature 2.522
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.465
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 7.836
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.538
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.909
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.964
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 8.065
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 16.021
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.173
When I write some files expected to persist 1.221
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.622
# 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" 11.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.258
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 enabled and logged in 7.926
And the network is plugged 0.045
And Tor is ready 9.961
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 5.231
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.988
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.418
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.347
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.061
Tags: @product
40.136
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 9.168
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.093
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.505
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:8.365
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 22.379
When I enable persistence 22.694
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.969
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.126
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.422
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.304
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.571
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.697
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
When I cold reboot the computer 5.898
And the computer reboots Tails 35.297
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.245
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.289
Given I enable persistence 13.208
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.138
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.731
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
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2:12.366
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 8.246
# 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 28.630
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.511
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.209
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
40.144
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 8.274
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.343
Then persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.029
And all notifications have disappeared 8.349
When I delete the persistent partition 2.718
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.386
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 8.534
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.292
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.264
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
58.488
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 8.258
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.001
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.892
And all notifications have disappeared 8.924
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.236
And all tps features are enabled 8.144
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:42.937
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:58.867
And I enable persistence 27.546
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.498
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.516
And persistence is enabled 8.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.875
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 7.716
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.605
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.230
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 9.566
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.488
When I enable persistence 14.703
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.036
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.471
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 8.517
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.802
When I try to enable persistence 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.879
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.396
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.100
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.543
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 8.134
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.875
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.680
And all notifications have disappeared 7.866
# 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" 0.196
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.069
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.183
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.155
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.494
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 8.262
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.212
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.331
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.964
When I log in to a new session 9.368
And all notifications have disappeared 7.116
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.082
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000