Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4579 31 Aug 2026, 18:50

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 23:37.388 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.435
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 1:16.869
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.717
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.200
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.715
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 8.216
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.280
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.190
And persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.802
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 8.676
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.678
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.428
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.422
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.142
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
28.530
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.801
And the system is very low on memory 4.582
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.221
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.385
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.103
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.371
And I free up some memory 0.482
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.542
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.057
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 20.947
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.274
And all tps features are active 7.565
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.674
When I disable the first tps feature 2.426
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.201
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.381
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
Tags: @product
51.615
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 46.410
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.433
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.378
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.903
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 7.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.035
And I disable the first tps feature 2.438
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.835
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.535
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 enabled and logged in 7.630
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 9.905
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.766
When I write some files expected to persist 0.914
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.265
# 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" 11.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.753
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 7.572
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 8.041
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.133
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.865
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.429
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.330
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.046
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
Tags: @product
50.218
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 21.154
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.360
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:0.089
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 21.254
When I enable persistence 23.720
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.684
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.031
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.380
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.281
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.443
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.249
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.120
When I cold reboot the computer 5.764
And the computer reboots Tails 31.625
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.315
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
Given I enable persistence 12.024
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.278
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 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:3.184
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 7.966
# 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 28.236
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.339
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.604
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
36.771
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 7.930
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.330
Then persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.116
And all notifications have disappeared 8.389
When I delete the persistent partition 2.622
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:12.879
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 enabled and logged in 7.645
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.036
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.162
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.765
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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1:6.260
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 20.807
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.849
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.140
And all notifications have disappeared 8.075
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.220
And all tps features are enabled 7.117
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:36.466
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 1:57.612
And I enable persistence 24.441
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.093
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.497
And persistence is enabled 7.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.103
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 7.527
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.144
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.215
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 7.881
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.977
When I enable persistence 12.688
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.036
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.723
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 7.716
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.630
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.474
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.114
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.084
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.839
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 7.660
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.128
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.518
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.137
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 8.109
And all notifications have disappeared 6.954
# 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" 0.095
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.075
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.136
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.969
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.287
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 20.748
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.794
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.242
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.012
When I log in to a new session 7.031
And all notifications have disappeared 7.500
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.037
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000