Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4503 21 Jul 2026, 11:30

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 21:35.873 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.317
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 1:20.588
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.543
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.276
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.532
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 8.303
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.390
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.247
And persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.880
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 8.454
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.259
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.958
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.732
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.090
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
29.123
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 7.440
And the system is very low on memory 4.176
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.236
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.562
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.118
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.460
And I free up some memory 0.777
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.306
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.347
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 8.087
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.363
And all tps features are active 5.566
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.202
When I disable the first tps feature 2.562
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.227
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.689
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.684
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
Tags: @product
12.940
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 7.517
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.575
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.447
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.779
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 7.093
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.611
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.893
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.840
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 7.230
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 13.592
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.021
When I write some files expected to persist 1.217
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.478
# 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" 12.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.797
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 7.115
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.236
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.186
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.470
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.334
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.755
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.485
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.053
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.079
Tags: @product
41.709
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 8.164
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.064
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.384
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:55.542
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 8.173
When I enable persistence 20.513
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.667
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.523
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.286
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.221
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.497
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.390
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.193
When I cold reboot the computer 6.292
And the computer reboots Tails 38.191
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.329
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.209
Given I enable persistence 10.987
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.083
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 9.575
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
2:13.918
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 7.757
# 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 28.888
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.719
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.093
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
39.068
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.844
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.843
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.286
And all notifications have disappeared 7.963
When I delete the persistent partition 2.663
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.880
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 7.265
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.369
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.952
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
50.132
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 7.819
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.210
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.530
And all notifications have disappeared 7.812
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.279
And all tps features are enabled 4.648
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.210
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 32.738
And I enable persistence 23.627
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.817
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.588
And persistence is enabled 5.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.725
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 6.829
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.416
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.915
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.782
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.080
When I enable persistence 10.339
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.867
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 7.475
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.459
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.099
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.337
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.151
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.832
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 7.494
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.049
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.720
And all notifications have disappeared 8.660
# 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" 0.124
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.079
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.242
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.245
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.509
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 7.330
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.293
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.310
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.934
When I log in to a new session 8.904
And all notifications have disappeared 8.521
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.341
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000