Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4544 12 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 26:1.160 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.920
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 1:21.189
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.721
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.229
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.980
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 8.896
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.082
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.318
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 8.894
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.437
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.966
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 4.131
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.543
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.150
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
31.104
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 8.211
And the system is very low on memory 5.506
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.753
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.131
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.402
And I free up some memory 0.462
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.380
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.659
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.495
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And all tps features are active 8.010
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.956
When I disable the first tps feature 2.486
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.561
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.716
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.826
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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13.586
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 8.199
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.530
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.456
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.466
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 7.892
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.487
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.870
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.687
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 8.495
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 16.480
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.790
When I write some files expected to persist 1.042
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.585
# 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" 11.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.324
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 7.850
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 9.990
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.410
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.047
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 11.227
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.078
Tags: @product
41.340
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 9.162
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.092
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.638
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:59.997
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 8.922
When I enable persistence 24.587
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.681
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.439
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.274
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.362
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.713
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.209
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
When I cold reboot the computer 6.019
And the computer reboots Tails 35.645
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.423
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.276
Given I enable persistence 15.516
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.158
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.372
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:9.763
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 8.675
# 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 30.444
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.411
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.431
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.563
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 8.631
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.280
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.407
And all notifications have disappeared 8.351
When I delete the persistent partition 2.570
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.395
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 8.069
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.318
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.719
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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1:0.026
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 8.234
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.861
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.486
And all notifications have disappeared 8.214
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.286
And all tps features are enabled 9.501
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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4:47.736
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 3:55.943
And I enable persistence 32.429
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.212
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.562
And persistence is enabled 10.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.651
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 7.877
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.342
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.839
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 9.140
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.971
When I enable persistence 17.296
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.087
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.590
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 8.850
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.694
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.641
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.093
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.281
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.247
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.755
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 8.539
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.201
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 9.741
And all notifications have disappeared 7.396
# 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" 0.149
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.083
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.165
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.139
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.452
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 8.332
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.652
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.341
When I try to enable persistence 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.700
When I log in to a new session 8.268
And all notifications have disappeared 7.969
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.264
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000