Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4540 10 Aug 2026, 14:18

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 24:41.717 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.633
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 1:22.926
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.654
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.247
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.413
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 9.348
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.851
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.214
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.579
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 9.845
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.404
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.956
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.447
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.508
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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31.239
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 8.514
And the system is very low on memory 4.880
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.178
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.421
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.134
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.404
And I free up some memory 0.464
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.159
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:2.641
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 8.908
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.263
And all tps features are active 12.608
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.100
When I disable the first tps feature 2.543
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.667
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 1:10.437
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.880
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 8.201
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.130
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.522
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.675
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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14.024
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 8.265
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I disable the first tps feature 2.512
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.027
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.916
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 7.927
And the network is plugged 0.536
And Tor is ready 9.510
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.471
When I write some files expected to persist 1.272
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.516
# 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" 11.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.473
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
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 0.047
And Tor is ready 10.145
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.733
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.511
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.065
And Tor is ready 10.999
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.372
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.127
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.079
Tags: @product
53.008
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 22.258
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.078
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.789
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.848
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 8.825
When I enable persistence 23.734
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.410
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.571
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.535
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.400
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.555
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.267
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
When I cold reboot the computer 5.878
And the computer reboots Tails 34.231
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.349
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.256
Given I enable persistence 13.808
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.082
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.342
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.330
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:39.156
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 35.065
# 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 31.309
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.397
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.376
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
Tags: @product
40.075
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 8.562
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.624
Then persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.270
And all notifications have disappeared 8.648
When I delete the persistent partition 2.604
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.181
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 8.215
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.571
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.125
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
Tags: @product
58.271
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 8.926
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.743
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.405
And all notifications have disappeared 8.146
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.242
And all tps features are enabled 9.037
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.063
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
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 2:1.162
And I enable persistence 27.707
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.846
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.536
And persistence is enabled 8.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.947
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 7.878
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.593
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.060
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 9.036
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.237
When I enable persistence 13.782
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.787
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 8.920
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.215
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.753
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.125
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.253
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.088
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.121
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.286
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 8.313
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.168
When I try to enable persistence 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.234
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 9.451
And all notifications have disappeared 7.275
# 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" 0.220
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.169
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.185
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 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.225
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 8.703
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.458
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.282
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.538
When I log in to a new session 8.592
And all notifications have disappeared 9.558
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.096
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000