Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4552 17 Aug 2026, 11:17

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 25:10.936 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.203
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 1:21.340
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.783
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.257
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.234
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 8.673
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.183
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.152
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 9.869
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.255
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.114
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.290
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.127
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.277
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
30.585
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 logged in 8.815
And the system is very low on memory 4.697
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.258
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.695
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.123
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.508
And I free up some memory 0.528
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.905
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.856
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 8.905
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
And all tps features are active 9.272
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.708
When I disable the first tps feature 2.520
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.840
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.650
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.839
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
27.208
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 21.862
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I disable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.486
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.111
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 8.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.103
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I disable the first tps feature 2.568
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.827
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.112
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 7.952
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 12.017
And I take note of which tps features are available 9.713
When I write some files expected to persist 1.275
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.446
# 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" 12.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.910
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.014
And the network is plugged 0.964
And Tor is ready 9.338
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.489
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.806
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 12.581
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.380
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
Tags: @product
43.289
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.808
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.134
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:2.167
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 8.959
When I enable persistence 25.030
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.941
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.179
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.412
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.294
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.488
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.111
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.125
When I cold reboot the computer 6.295
And the computer reboots Tails 36.696
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.313
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
Given I enable persistence 15.100
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.305
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.462
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
2:19.009
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 8.469
# 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 33.748
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.565
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.579
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
Tags: @product
42.678
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 8.326
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.681
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.405
And all notifications have disappeared 9.274
When I delete the persistent partition 2.658
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.795
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 8.744
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.432
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.267
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:2.264
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 8.670
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.189
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.009
And all notifications have disappeared 8.877
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.349
And all tps features are enabled 9.061
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:51.027
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 2:4.510
And I enable persistence 28.692
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.370
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.575
And persistence is enabled 8.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.420
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.831
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.037
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
56.225
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 22.201
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.569
When I enable persistence 14.095
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.590
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 22.344
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.527
When I try to enable persistence 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.187
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.355
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.107
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.162
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 8.151
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.935
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 9.520
And all notifications have disappeared 7.701
# 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" 0.203
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.107
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.161
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.066
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 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.930
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 8.458
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.239
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.314
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.522
When I log in to a new session 9.346
And all notifications have disappeared 7.774
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.270
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000