Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4582 01 Sep 2026, 19:41

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 24:24.450 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.105
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 1:18.653
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.572
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.223
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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32.706
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 9.520
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.170
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.400
And persistence is disabled 0.143
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.059
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 9.043
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.575
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.590
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.174
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.156
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
31.513
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 8.187
And the system is very low on memory 5.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.154
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.973
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.178
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.379
And I free up some memory 0.526
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.976
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.841
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 8.885
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And all tps features are active 8.262
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.272
When I disable the first tps feature 2.669
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.254
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.923
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.373
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.910
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 8.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.578
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.428
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.328
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 8.012
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 3.131
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.982
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.414
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 7.990
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 11.017
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.263
When I write some files expected to persist 1.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.537
# 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" 11.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.795
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 7.986
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 10.225
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.107
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.348
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.115
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 11.364
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.411
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
Tags: @product
40.434
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.659
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 11.846
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.954
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 9.069
When I enable persistence 24.881
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.939
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.665
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.413
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.408
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.538
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.541
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
When I cold reboot the computer 5.962
And the computer reboots Tails 35.131
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.195
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
Given I enable persistence 14.765
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.084
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.160
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.637
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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2:11.906
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 8.609
# 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 31.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.401
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.327
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
39.343
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 8.273
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.198
Then persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.966
And all notifications have disappeared 8.828
When I delete the persistent partition 2.714
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.926
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 7.950
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.486
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.212
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
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1:1.189
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 8.347
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.449
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.605
And all notifications have disappeared 7.907
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.293
And all tps features are enabled 10.933
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.643
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 2:14.621
And I enable persistence 33.068
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.520
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.534
And persistence is enabled 10.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.149
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 7.795
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.732
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.229
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 8.963
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.818
When I enable persistence 14.567
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.131
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 8.785
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.112
When I try to enable persistence 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.604
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.105
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.819
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.242
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.707
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 7.889
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.921
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 10.279
And all notifications have disappeared 8.657
# 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" 0.144
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.109
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
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 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.158
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 9.041
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.780
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.394
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.507
When I log in to a new session 9.080
And all notifications have disappeared 6.934
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.297
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000