Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4570 26 Aug 2026, 14:15

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 25:36.884 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.641
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 1:26.547
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.126
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.291
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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46.210
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 24.104
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.077
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.247
And persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.451
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 9.548
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.117
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.180
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.398
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.595
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
32.030
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 8.271
And the system is very low on memory 4.624
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.165
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.430
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 2.408
And I free up some memory 0.648
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.259
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.990
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 9.508
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.353
And all tps features are active 8.050
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.021
When I disable the first tps feature 2.532
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.797
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.801
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.988
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
14.177
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 8.404
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.096
When I disable the first tps feature 2.723
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.510
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.867
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 8.210
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 2.564
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.890
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.377
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 7.950
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 8.942
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.046
When I write some files expected to persist 1.216
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.353
# 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" 11.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.054
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 8.225
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 11.095
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.534
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.638
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 11.769
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.412
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.075
Tags: @product
41.207
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.462
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.106
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.739
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:11.901
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 22.106
When I enable persistence 25.732
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.036
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.330
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.303
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.148
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.546
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.911
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.117
When I cold reboot the computer 6.187
And the computer reboots Tails 34.658
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.389
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.320
Given I enable persistence 13.463
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.062
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.292
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.159
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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2:10.110
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.521
# 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 27.783
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.502
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.186
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
54.509
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 22.339
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.342
Then persistence is disabled 0.139
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.135
And all notifications have disappeared 8.628
When I delete the persistent partition 2.625
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.743
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 8.799
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.093
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.262
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.311
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
Tags: @product
1:8.987
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 9.547
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.449
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.113
And all notifications have disappeared 8.620
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.307
And all tps features are enabled 12.460
And all tps features but the first one are active 11.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:2.062
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 2:12.579
And I enable persistence 30.731
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.424
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.777
And persistence is enabled 8.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.513
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 8.094
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.791
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.712
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 9.009
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.070
When I enable persistence 14.204
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.361
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 8.935
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.119
When I try to enable persistence 1.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.015
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.970
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.123
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.162
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.459
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 the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.713
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.087
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 9.530
And all notifications have disappeared 7.545
# 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" 0.156
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.077
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.205
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.143
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.512
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 8.717
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.079
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.228
When I log in to a new session 9.497
And all notifications have disappeared 6.999
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.377
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000