Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4615 14 Sep 2026, 12:12

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 24:9.553 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.837
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 1:21.645
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.085
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.226
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.373
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 8.949
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.037
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.359
And persistence is disabled 0.129
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.771
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 logged in 8.876
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.382
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.204
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.627
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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30.654
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 8.420
And the system is very low on memory 4.673
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.253
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.641
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.125
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.531
And I free up some memory 0.651
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.294
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:53.515
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.044
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.297
And all tps features are active 8.416
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.630
When I disable the first tps feature 2.644
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.898
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.576
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.587
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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13.381
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.875
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I disable the first tps feature 2.632
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.686
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 7.730
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I disable the first tps feature 2.565
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.080
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.393
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 7.817
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.183
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.906
When I write some files expected to persist 1.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.229
# 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" 12.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.646
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 8.278
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 9.248
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.215
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.615
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.969
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.649
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.432
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
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40.105
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.643
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.093
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.507
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.876
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 8.777
When I enable persistence 23.180
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.985
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.790
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.389
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.389
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.636
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.994
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
When I cold reboot the computer 6.006
And the computer reboots Tails 33.914
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.338
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.265
Given I enable persistence 14.506
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.090
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.216
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.143
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:13.282
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.486
# 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 28.680
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.653
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.881
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
Tags: @product
41.359
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 9.067
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.672
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.197
And all notifications have disappeared 8.223
When I delete the persistent partition 2.754
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.600
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.859
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.608
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.848
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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58.703
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 8.816
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.888
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.883
And all notifications have disappeared 7.655
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.265
And all tps features are enabled 8.298
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:9.863
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 2:18.223
And I enable persistence 32.613
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.174
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.642
And persistence is enabled 10.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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36.142
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 7.737
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 27.907
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.992
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 8.768
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.311
When I enable persistence 15.194
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.128
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 8.158
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.177
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.523
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.080
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.230
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.108
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.632
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 8.049
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.124
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.467
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I log in to a new session 8.023
And all notifications have disappeared 7.798
# 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" 0.249
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.138
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.259
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.215
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.604
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.300
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.938
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.310
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.875
When I log in to a new session 8.418
And all notifications have disappeared 8.284
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.431
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000