Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4595 04 Sep 2026, 07:39

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 23:1.960 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.035
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 1:18.899
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.176
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.229
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.302
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 8.387
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.217
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.190
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.180
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 9.104
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.233
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.880
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.231
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.370
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.198
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
29.877
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 8.250
And the system is very low on memory 4.868
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.215
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.376
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.157
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.320
And I free up some memory 0.512
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.120
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.721
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 8.455
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.355
And all tps features are active 7.951
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.841
When I disable the first tps feature 2.421
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.751
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.495
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.168
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.310
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 8.056
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.458
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.410
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.300
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 7.578
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.560
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.974
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.140
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 7.736
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 8.212
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.243
When I write some files expected to persist 0.942
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.518
# 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" 11.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.793
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 7.726
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 8.788
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.225
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.285
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 11.908
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.423
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.045
Tags: @product
40.581
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 8.542
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.728
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.824
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 8.570
When I enable persistence 22.381
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.764
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.993
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.397
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.158
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.503
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.936
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
When I cold reboot the computer 5.855
And the computer reboots Tails 33.878
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.254
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
Given I enable persistence 12.945
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.056
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.167
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.465
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:10.546
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 8.604
# 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 32.506
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.531
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.513
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
38.850
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 8.361
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.722
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.873
And all notifications have disappeared 8.896
When I delete the persistent partition 2.653
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.982
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.471
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.550
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.698
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
57.141
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.039
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.376
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.526
And all notifications have disappeared 8.580
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.293
And all tps features are enabled 7.793
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.651
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 2:0.956
And I enable persistence 27.179
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.334
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.555
And persistence is enabled 8.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.107
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 7.333
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.267
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.557
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 8.780
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.913
When I enable persistence 12.798
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.248
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 8.306
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.439
When I try to enable persistence 1.256
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.476
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.203
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.162
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.467
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 7.868
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.610
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 7.761
And all notifications have disappeared 7.648
# 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" 0.133
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.077
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.150
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.016
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.339
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 7.980
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.867
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.221
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.192
When I log in to a new session 8.134
And all notifications have disappeared 7.941
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.098
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000