Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4617 14 Sep 2026, 18:42

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 25:7.030 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.731
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 1:20.055
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.579
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.615
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 8.481
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.957
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.191
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.592
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 9.245
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.257
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.580
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.059
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.033
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.177
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
Tags: @product
29.718
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 8.607
And the system is very low on memory 4.206
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.194
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.304
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.111
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.440
And I free up some memory 0.479
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.323
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.457
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 8.551
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.380
And all tps features are active 8.797
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.858
When I disable the first tps feature 3.061
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.519
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.090
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.548
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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13.592
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 8.136
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.043
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.103
When I disable the first tps feature 2.534
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.510
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.857
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 8.198
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.219
And I disable the first tps feature 2.476
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.859
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.853
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 8.319
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 11.385
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.890
When I write some files expected to persist 1.104
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.283
# 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" 11.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.056
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 8.197
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 8.348
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.525
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.507
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.648
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.096
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
Tags: @product
38.244
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 8.772
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.429
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.950
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 8.683
When I enable persistence 23.609
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.911
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.196
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.444
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.327
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.644
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.846
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.123
When I cold reboot the computer 5.856
And the computer reboots Tails 34.306
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.338
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.113
Given I enable persistence 13.825
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.094
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.379
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.133
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
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2:11.674
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 8.294
# 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 29.908
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.265
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.243
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
39.218
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 8.826
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.902
Then persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.101
And all notifications have disappeared 8.358
When I delete the persistent partition 2.705
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.818
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 enabled and logged in 8.147
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.475
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.911
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
58.665
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.509
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.809
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.530
And all notifications have disappeared 8.374
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.292
And all tps features are enabled 8.050
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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4:23.121
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 3:27.286
And I enable persistence 37.776
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.970
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.599
And persistence is enabled 10.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.953
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 7.729
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.573
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.258
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 8.535
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.303
When I enable persistence 14.555
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.514
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 8.529
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.821
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.244
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.121
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.162
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.879
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 8.183
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.042
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 8.796
And all notifications have disappeared 6.820
# 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" 0.174
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.102
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.282
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.168
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.255
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 8.153
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.599
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.341
When I try to enable persistence 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.608
When I log in to a new session 8.770
And all notifications have disappeared 8.231
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.452
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000