Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4606 09 Sep 2026, 19:30

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 24:23.609 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.795
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 1:21.831
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.841
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.237
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.805
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.117
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.520
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.259
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.955
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 9.403
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.373
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.957
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.458
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.337
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.194
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
30.519
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 8.419
And the system is very low on memory 4.252
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.221
When I try to create a persistent partition 3.986
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.107
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.457
And I free up some memory 0.555
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.465
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:7.956
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 22.058
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And all tps features are active 8.697
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.938
When I disable the first tps feature 2.606
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.403
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.341
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.398
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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14.163
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 8.137
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.086
When I disable the first tps feature 3.116
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.029
When I enable the first tps feature 2.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.796
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 8.072
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I disable the first tps feature 2.670
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.831
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.173
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 7.711
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 9.887
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.313
When I write some files expected to persist 1.037
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.316
# 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" 11.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.262
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 7.675
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 10.684
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.227
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.052
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 10.744
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.426
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.051
Tags: @product
39.889
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 8.534
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.160
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.819
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.539
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 9.212
When I enable persistence 23.363
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.778
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.003
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.292
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.296
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.474
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.154
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 6.070
And the computer reboots Tails 34.140
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.363
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.127
Given I enable persistence 13.364
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.145
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.391
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:8.222
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 8.593
# 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 28.962
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.330
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.085
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
42.533
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 8.949
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.548
Then persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.857
And all notifications have disappeared 8.925
When I delete the persistent partition 2.801
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.243
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 34.516
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.471
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.017
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
57.100
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 8.166
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.475
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.223
And all notifications have disappeared 8.277
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.262
And all tps features are enabled 7.905
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.620
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 2:4.138
And I enable persistence 29.696
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.464
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.536
And persistence is enabled 8.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.805
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 7.800
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.602
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.512
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 8.397
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.368
When I enable persistence 13.102
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.173
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 8.053
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.444
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.370
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.182
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.092
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.604
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 8.527
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.561
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.131
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.110
And all notifications have disappeared 8.217
# 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" 0.357
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.098
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.185
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.285
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.936
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 8.111
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.222
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.400
When I try to enable persistence 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.153
When I log in to a new session 7.776
And all notifications have disappeared 8.686
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.205
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000