Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4553 17 Aug 2026, 17:54

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 24:12.119 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.667
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.258
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.050
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.533
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.796
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 8.932
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.088
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.173
And persistence is disabled 0.074
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.160
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 9.089
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.384
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.646
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.626
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
30.067
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 8.118
And the system is very low on memory 4.963
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.199
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.766
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.105
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.519
And I free up some memory 0.600
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.745
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:3.573
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 21.893
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.396
And all tps features are active 8.683
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.189
When I disable the first tps feature 2.530
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.657
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.474
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.385
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
13.168
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 8.258
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.449
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.086
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.660
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 7.995
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 2.517
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.987
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.279
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 enabled and logged in 7.775
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 11.853
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.338
When I write some files expected to persist 0.949
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.268
# 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" 12.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.367
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 7.946
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 9.618
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.315
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.893
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 10.607
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.470
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.137
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.067
Tags: @product
40.770
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.030
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.701
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:58.987
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.222
When I enable persistence 24.640
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.373
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.376
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.329
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.311
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.501
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.317
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 6.088
And the computer reboots Tails 35.440
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.317
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.194
Given I enable persistence 14.504
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.092
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.326
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.663
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:13.065
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 8.605
# 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 29.973
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.367
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.355
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
40.514
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 8.390
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.426
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.286
And all notifications have disappeared 8.362
When I delete the persistent partition 2.684
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.688
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 8.470
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.382
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.539
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
58.598
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 8.954
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.791
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.300
And all notifications have disappeared 7.874
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.290
And all tps features are enabled 8.167
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:45.995
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 2:0.432
And I enable persistence 27.948
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.964
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.537
And persistence is enabled 9.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.819
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 7.714
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.502
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.155
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 9.183
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.211
When I enable persistence 15.504
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.219
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 21.814
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.648
When I try to enable persistence 1.256
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.250
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.170
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.242
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.366
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 8.452
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.042
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.114
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 7.480
And all notifications have disappeared 8.410
# 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" 0.138
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.131
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.166
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.383
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.196
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 8.204
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.425
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.376
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.258
When I log in to a new session 8.207
And all notifications have disappeared 8.357
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.097
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000