Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4614 14 Sep 2026, 11:14

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 24:2.212 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.140
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.438
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.663
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.301
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.535
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 8.907
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.968
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.246
And persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.716
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 22.728
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.720
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.460
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.109
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.194
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
29.631
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 8.513
And the system is very low on memory 4.150
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.266
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.288
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.410
And I free up some memory 0.469
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.386
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.884
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 8.721
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
And all tps features are active 9.234
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.918
When I disable the first tps feature 2.446
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.306
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.442
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.718
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
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12.915
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 7.705
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.426
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.040
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.028
When I enable the first tps feature 2.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.044
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 7.412
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 2.620
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.856
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.169
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.753
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 10.183
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.370
When I write some files expected to persist 1.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.237
# 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" 12.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.591
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 7.830
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.428
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.209
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.342
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.921
And I capture all network traffic 0.020
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 12.202
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.393
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
Tags: @product
40.256
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 8.691
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.109
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.957
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.654
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 8.957
When I enable persistence 23.705
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.751
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.758
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.498
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.608
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.458
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
When I cold reboot the computer 5.885
And the computer reboots Tails 34.453
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.283
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.144
Given I enable persistence 14.380
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.107
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.348
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.732
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:14.636
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 8.671
# 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 29.556
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.513
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.502
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
Tags: @product
40.123
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.263
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.305
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.754
And all notifications have disappeared 8.834
When I delete the persistent partition 3.636
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.405
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 8.157
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.368
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.606
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
59.784
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 8.810
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.352
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.684
And all notifications have disappeared 8.436
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.257
And all tps features are enabled 8.316
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.783
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:55.770
And I enable persistence 29.754
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.080
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.485
And persistence is enabled 10.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.530
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 8.163
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.916
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.739
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 8.363
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.210
When I enable persistence 16.917
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.766
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 8.319
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.021
When I try to enable persistence 1.453
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.285
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.375
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.314
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.357
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 7.939
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.245
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.317
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.262
And all notifications have disappeared 8.700
# 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" 0.328
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.087
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.154
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.242
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.543
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 8.310
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.771
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.423
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.780
When I log in to a new session 9.814
And all notifications have disappeared 7.996
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.125
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000