Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21790-tor-0.4.9.13 2 25 Sep 2026, 08:05

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 22:59.980 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.380
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 1:17.288
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.081
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.217
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.177
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 8.486
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.214
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.189
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.486
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 logged in 9.047
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.246
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.700
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.379
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.779
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.146
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.972
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 8.154
And the system is very low on memory 4.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.024
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.090
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.358
And I free up some memory 0.638
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.403
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.268
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 8.458
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.342
And all tps features are active 8.097
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.768
When I disable the first tps feature 2.538
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.736
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.589
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.881
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.348
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 7.907
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.637
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.438
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.199
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 7.648
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.484
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.859
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.737
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 9.916
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.380
When I write some files expected to persist 1.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.400
# 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" 11.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.763
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 7.830
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 9.827
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.350
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.899
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 12.116
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.051
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
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40.809
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 8.653
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.330
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.865
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 8.600
When I enable persistence 22.183
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.851
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.252
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.323
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.276
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.453
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.036
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.110
When I cold reboot the computer 7.245
And the computer reboots Tails 33.466
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.302
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
Given I enable persistence 13.750
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.132
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.463
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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2:8.193
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 8.608
# 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 27.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.299
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.569
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
38.120
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 8.191
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.491
Then persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.691
And all notifications have disappeared 7.689
When I delete the persistent partition 2.686
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.356
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 8.140
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.305
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.558
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
56.949
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 8.333
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.370
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.651
And all notifications have disappeared 8.080
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.233
And all tps features are enabled 8.165
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:41.140
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 1:56.568
And I enable persistence 27.174
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.002
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.489
And persistence is enabled 8.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.834
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 7.341
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.980
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.138
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 10.265
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.533
When I enable persistence 15.409
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.008
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 8.462
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.320
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.742
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.266
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.221
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.562
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 8.064
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.166
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 9.596
And all notifications have disappeared 6.990
# 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" 0.128
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.060
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.147
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.003
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.550
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 8.352
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.212
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.229
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.478
When I log in to a new session 8.943
And all notifications have disappeared 6.859
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.111
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000