Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4563 21 Aug 2026, 16:30

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 23:3.891 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.373
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 1:19.105
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.294
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.249
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.601
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 8.346
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.302
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.173
And persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.254
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 8.865
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.271
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.367
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 5.315
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.134
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.141
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
Tags: @product
29.832
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 8.006
And the system is very low on memory 4.517
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.141
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.532
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.175
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.325
And I free up some memory 0.557
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.513
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.423
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.503
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.283
And all tps features are active 8.492
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.030
When I disable the first tps feature 2.508
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.203
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.610
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.337
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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13.165
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 enabled and logged in 7.851
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.043
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.584
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.410
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.575
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 7.587
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 3.001
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.833
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.004
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 7.869
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.051
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.963
When I write some files expected to persist 0.983
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.303
# 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" 11.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.049
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 7.798
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 11.021
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.218
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.084
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 11.150
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.379
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
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40.000
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 8.370
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.391
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.102
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 8.230
When I enable persistence 21.671
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.711
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.865
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.400
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" 4.449
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.688
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
When I cold reboot the computer 6.111
And the computer reboots Tails 34.303
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.231
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.130
Given I enable persistence 13.492
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.087
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.313
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.832
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:4.946
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 8.195
# 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 27.655
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.236
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.966
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
39.177
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 8.252
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.405
Then persistence is disabled 0.072
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.773
And all notifications have disappeared 7.708
When I delete the persistent partition 2.665
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.710
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 8.275
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.042
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.310
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.884
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
Tags: @product
56.391
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 8.296
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.675
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.660
And all notifications have disappeared 7.986
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.269
And all tps features are enabled 7.428
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:42.798
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 2:1.152
And I enable persistence 25.662
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.937
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.758
And persistence is enabled 8.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.665
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 7.300
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.885
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.613
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 8.895
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.156
When I enable persistence 13.960
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.617
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 8.180
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.091
When I try to enable persistence 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.745
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.344
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.180
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.017
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 7.827
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.569
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.131
And all notifications have disappeared 7.865
# 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" 0.162
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.097
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.149
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.055
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.568
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 7.867
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.880
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.247
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.185
When I log in to a new session 9.519
And all notifications have disappeared 7.808
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.068
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000