Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4538 10 Aug 2026, 11:46

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 27:12.639 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.948
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 1:22.410
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.170
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.350
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.140
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.284
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.986
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.221
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.083
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 22.482
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.237
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.702
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.969
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
44.488
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 22.326
And the system is very low on memory 4.497
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.188
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.844
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.094
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.469
And I free up some memory 0.548
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.452
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.210
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 8.519
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And all tps features are active 8.264
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.702
When I disable the first tps feature 2.489
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.557
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.813
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.346
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.528
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 8.080
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.083
When I disable the first tps feature 2.550
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.650
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 8.046
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 2.540
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.886
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.517
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 8.346
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 12.135
And I take note of which tps features are available 9.891
When I write some files expected to persist 1.294
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.496
# 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" 12.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.570
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 8.167
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 9.880
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.431
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.607
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 11.724
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.365
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
43.036
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 8.699
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.522
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.625
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 8.818
When I enable persistence 26.113
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.669
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.971
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.233
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.196
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.528
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.994
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 5.889
And the computer reboots Tails 34.510
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.321
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.243
Given I enable persistence 14.546
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.091
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.310
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.889
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
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2:17.343
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 8.310
# 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 32.164
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.291
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.888
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
40.167
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 8.479
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.543
Then persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.531
And all notifications have disappeared 8.631
When I delete the persistent partition 2.642
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.778
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 8.262
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.097
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.915
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.285
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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1:3.959
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 8.621
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.663
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.826
And all notifications have disappeared 8.435
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.377
And all tps features are enabled 10.097
And all tps features but the first one are active 10.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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5:4.009
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 4:8.863
And I enable persistence 34.699
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.463
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.550
And persistence is enabled 11.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.170
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 7.758
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 26.775
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.290
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 9.245
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.025
When I enable persistence 15.425
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.712
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 8.308
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.502
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.599
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.120
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.350
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.094
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.222
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 8.682
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.044
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.132
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 8.176
And all notifications have disappeared 8.352
# 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" 0.157
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.133
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.300
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.352
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.185
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 7.920
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.726
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.333
When I try to enable persistence 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.038
When I log in to a new session 10.435
And all notifications have disappeared 7.266
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.186
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000