Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4545 13 Aug 2026, 11:16

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 24:36.818 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.832
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 1:20.112
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.709
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.285
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.783
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 8.620
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.382
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.200
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.349
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 9.189
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.140
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.396
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.986
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.150
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
30.791
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 8.562
And the system is very low on memory 4.300
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.200
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.570
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.112
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.504
And I free up some memory 0.502
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.988
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.279
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 21.715
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
And all tps features are active 9.204
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.810
When I disable the first tps feature 2.622
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.275
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.598
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.618
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.786
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 8.385
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 2.516
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.437
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.506
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 7.803
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.569
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.963
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.719
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 7.942
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 10.027
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.131
When I write some files expected to persist 1.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.350
# 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" 12.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.941
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 7.918
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 18.234
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.480
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.208
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 11.251
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.428
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.094
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.108
Tags: @product
43.350
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.102
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.116
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.428
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:3.689
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 8.736
When I enable persistence 27.372
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.913
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.543
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.318
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.302
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.545
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.751
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
When I cold reboot the computer 6.119
And the computer reboots Tails 36.950
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.337
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.140
Given I enable persistence 14.256
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.231
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.808
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
Tags: @product
2:18.313
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 9.828
# 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 35.417
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.458
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.275
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
40.850
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 8.611
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.047
Then persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.477
And all notifications have disappeared 8.554
When I delete the persistent partition 2.808
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.468
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 enabled and logged in 8.603
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.511
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.067
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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1:1.019
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 9.211
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.766
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.447
And all notifications have disappeared 8.864
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.335
And all tps features are enabled 8.786
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:51.370
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:4.834
And I enable persistence 29.056
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.283
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.617
And persistence is enabled 8.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.541
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 8.021
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.942
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.057
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 8.510
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.153
When I enable persistence 14.327
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.210
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 8.180
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.639
When I try to enable persistence 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.934
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.253
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.187
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.367
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 8.151
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.480
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.116
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.931
And all notifications have disappeared 8.432
# 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" 0.142
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.086
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.246
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.433
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.587
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 8.327
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.610
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.276
When I try to enable persistence 1.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.161
When I log in to a new session 7.756
And all notifications have disappeared 7.865
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.283
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000