Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4537 10 Aug 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 24:18.827 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.736
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 1:21.838
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.858
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.331
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.980
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 8.751
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.397
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.254
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.582
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 9.273
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.252
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.137
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.953
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.415
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.260
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.186
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
31.430
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 8.307
And the system is very low on memory 5.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.259
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.231
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 2.447
And I free up some memory 0.518
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.406
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.247
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 8.748
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.341
And all tps features are active 8.334
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.790
When I disable the first tps feature 2.624
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.120
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.830
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.501
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
27.976
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 21.888
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.112
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 3.143
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.117
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.029
When I enable the first tps feature 2.449
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.915
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 8.159
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.657
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.916
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.628
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 7.988
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.437
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.764
When I write some files expected to persist 1.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.329
# 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" 11.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.114
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 8.037
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 10.131
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.216
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.466
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.150
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 11.425
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.395
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.110
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.069
Tags: @product
41.863
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 8.597
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.133
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.722
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.507
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 8.844
When I enable persistence 23.479
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.064
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.664
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.495
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.317
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.511
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.855
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 5.808
And the computer reboots Tails 35.007
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.383
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.285
Given I enable persistence 14.586
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.324
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.541
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:13.098
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 8.574
# 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 31.413
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.467
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.793
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
39.904
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 8.590
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.544
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.226
And all notifications have disappeared 7.494
When I delete the persistent partition 2.624
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:24.244
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 8.236
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.087
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.059
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.662
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
58.005
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 8.377
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.043
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.105
And all notifications have disappeared 8.325
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.281
And all tps features are enabled 8.653
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:45.999
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 2:1.905
And I enable persistence 27.109
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.997
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.587
And persistence is enabled 8.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.302
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 7.995
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.762
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.237
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 8.764
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.577
When I enable persistence 14.854
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.736
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 8.465
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.290
When I try to enable persistence 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.853
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.107
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.409
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.262
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.670
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 8.072
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.263
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.093
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 7.830
And all notifications have disappeared 8.362
# 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" 0.122
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.093
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.201
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.310
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.645
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 8.119
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.064
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.367
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.558
When I log in to a new session 8.145
And all notifications have disappeared 8.100
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.169
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000