Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4549 14 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 23:9.657 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.576
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 1:17.752
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.843
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.323
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.379
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 21.870
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.250
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.230
And persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.407
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 8.778
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.297
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 5.171
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.552
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.155
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product
29.329
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 8.131
And the system is very low on memory 4.433
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.184
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.026
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.381
And I free up some memory 0.470
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.510
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.057
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 8.468
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.280
And all tps features are active 8.293
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.600
When I disable the first tps feature 2.516
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.910
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.346
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.563
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
13.599
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 7.903
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.684
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.073
When I enable the first tps feature 2.525
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.296
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 7.511
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.610
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.987
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.107
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 7.783
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 8.340
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.046
When I write some files expected to persist 0.911
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.269
# 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" 11.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.326
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 7.879
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 10.018
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.478
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.322
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 11.850
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.382
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
Tags: @product
41.153
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 8.572
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.166
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.279
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 8.572
When I enable persistence 22.812
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.809
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.248
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.445
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.323
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.515
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.199
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
When I cold reboot the computer 5.994
And the computer reboots Tails 33.480
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.248
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.146
Given I enable persistence 13.936
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.086
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.173
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.988
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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2:11.526
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 8.275
# 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 32.793
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.430
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.174
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
Tags: @product
38.531
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 8.468
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.355
Then persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.656
And all notifications have disappeared 8.060
When I delete the persistent partition 2.612
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.010
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 7.835
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.316
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.516
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
Tags: @product
56.662
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 8.587
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.778
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.304
And all notifications have disappeared 8.664
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.223
And all tps features are enabled 7.525
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:43.271
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:59.488
And I enable persistence 27.347
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.911
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.533
And persistence is enabled 8.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.910
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 7.583
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.890
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.712
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 8.614
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.607
When I enable persistence 13.723
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.520
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 8.186
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.892
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.320
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.178
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.195
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.920
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 7.743
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.117
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 9.241
And all notifications have disappeared 8.096
# 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" 0.092
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.078
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.146
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.150
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.077
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 7.808
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.538
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.318
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.503
When I log in to a new session 8.173
And all notifications have disappeared 6.869
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.089
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000