Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_5494-snowflake 1 09 Mar 2026, 14:39

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 21:37.374 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.687
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.750
And I update APT using apt 5.829
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.245
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.837
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.124
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.482
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
And persistence is disabled 0.141
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.736
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.588
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.368
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.014
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.506
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.918
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.986
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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29.440
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.458
And the system is very low on memory 3.230
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.259
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.717
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.131
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.381
And I free up some memory 0.894
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.899
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.557
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.907
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
And all tps features are active 1.304
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.871
When I disable the first tps feature 2.489
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.224
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.770
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.644
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.301
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.771
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.534
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.521
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.184
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.350
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.512
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.158
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.326
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.642
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 17.481
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.422
When I write some files expected to persist 1.210
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.065
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:10.975
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.934
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 16.586
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.891
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.541
And I capture all network traffic 0.027
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.254
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.393
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
Tags: @product
39.211
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.708
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.088
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.960
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.786
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.344
When I enable persistence 13.463
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.352
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.189
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.313
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.262
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.520
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.579
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
When I cold reboot the computer 10.336
And the computer reboots Tails 36.808
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.242
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.289
Given I enable persistence 7.231
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.261
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.103
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:9.944
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.153
# 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 27.428
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.420
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.406
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
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38.878
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.307
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.696
Then persistence is disabled 0.174
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.304
And all notifications have disappeared 8.377
When I delete the persistent partition 2.639
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.112
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.908
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.504
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.342
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
Tags: @product
42.099
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.093
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.349
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.429
And all notifications have disappeared 8.226
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.240
And all tps features are enabled 1.187
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.124
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
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 31.559
And I enable persistence 20.457
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.993
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.567
And persistence is enabled 1.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.913
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.331
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.987
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.867
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.528
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.790
When I enable persistence 7.561
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.266
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.004
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.923
When I try to enable persistence 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.023
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.540
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.200
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.690
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.670
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.362
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 12.413
And all notifications have disappeared 10.713
# 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" 0.225
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.403
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.248
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.368
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.432
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.082
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.682
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.405
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.496
When I log in to a new session 11.373
And all notifications have disappeared 8.545
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.573
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000