Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4440 10 Jun 2026, 11:24

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 21:48.507 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.328
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.256
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.634
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.320
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.953
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.162
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.507
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.265
And persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.147
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.260
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.334
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.597
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.590
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.931
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.005
Tags: @product
30.559
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.893
And the system is very low on memory 3.505
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.148
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.974
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 2.437
And I free up some memory 0.961
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.474
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.618
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.968
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.351
And all tps features are active 1.254
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.192
When I disable the first tps feature 2.648
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.048
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.913
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
14.208
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.831
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.189
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.104
When I disable the first tps feature 3.105
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.074
When I enable the first tps feature 2.519
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
14.225
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.795
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.178
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 3.093
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.046
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
45.280
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.045
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.932
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.209
When I write some files expected to persist 1.218
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.991
# 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" 12.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:47.726
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.568
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 10.220
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.961
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.386
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.800
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.408
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.054
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.093
Tags: @product
41.256
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.213
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.095
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.686
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:52.804
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.122
When I enable persistence 14.100
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.923
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.774
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.345
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.239
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.527
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.129
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
When I cold reboot the computer 8.796
And the computer reboots Tails 37.741
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.269
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.205
Given I enable persistence 7.620
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.101
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.266
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.329
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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2:16.597
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.839
# 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 29.393
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.627
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.440
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
40.558
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.574
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.370
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.152
And all notifications have disappeared 8.208
When I delete the persistent partition 2.786
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.593
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.640
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.080
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.935
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.701
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.033
Tags: @product
45.707
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.690
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.426
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.941
And all notifications have disappeared 7.767
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.863
And all tps features are enabled 1.528
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.890
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 34.083
And I enable persistence 23.823
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.548
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.674
And persistence is enabled 1.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.627
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.206
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.751
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
28.799
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.126
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.367
When I enable persistence 7.251
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.474
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.105
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.805
When I try to enable persistence 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.922
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.794
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.223
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.352
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.174
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.516
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.361
And all notifications have disappeared 9.357
# 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" 0.169
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.557
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.237
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.646
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.796
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.171
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.128
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.384
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.389
When I log in to a new session 12.947
And all notifications have disappeared 8.559
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.355
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000