Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4536 09 Aug 2026, 11:14

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 23:52.495 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.518
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.316
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.273
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.254
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.342
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 8.892
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.402
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.216
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.120
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 22.218
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.265
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.389
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.842
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.162
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
30.898
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 8.018
And the system is very low on memory 4.971
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.265
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.591
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.124
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.437
And I free up some memory 0.595
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.840
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:0.322
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 21.737
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And all tps features are active 7.852
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.806
When I disable the first tps feature 2.634
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.297
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 1:4.033
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.391
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 enabled and logged in 7.962
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.122
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.521
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.427
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.518
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 8.010
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.501
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.828
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.247
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 7.745
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 10.136
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.775
When I write some files expected to persist 1.196
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.245
# 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" 11.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.066
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 7.996
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.100
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.452
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.182
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 10.636
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.375
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.056
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.151
Tags: @product
39.608
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 8.880
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.091
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.559
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.993
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.733
When I enable persistence 22.435
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.308
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.455
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.379
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.398
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.678
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.418
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
When I cold reboot the computer 6.067
And the computer reboots Tails 33.694
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.138
Given I enable persistence 13.232
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.213
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.176
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:4.974
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 8.437
# 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 26.035
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.295
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.622
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
Tags: @product
38.005
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 8.732
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.945
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.725
And all notifications have disappeared 7.607
When I delete the persistent partition 2.624
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.658
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 8.818
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.540
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.024
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
Tags: @product
57.294
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 8.400
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.908
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.497
And all notifications have disappeared 8.620
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.249
And all tps features are enabled 7.877
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.829
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 2:7.123
And I enable persistence 30.608
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.143
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.514
And persistence is enabled 12.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.254
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
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 7.719
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.031
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.872
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 8.600
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.857
When I enable persistence 16.556
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.847
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 8.762
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.535
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.873
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.274
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.236
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.977
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 7.945
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.635
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.094
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.090
And all notifications have disappeared 7.518
# 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" 0.185
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.110
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.175
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.039
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.753
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 7.723
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.964
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.237
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.972
When I log in to a new session 8.334
And all notifications have disappeared 8.508
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.059
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000