Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4145 01 Jan 2026, 11:49

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 157 0 0 0 0 157 21 0 21 27:43.407 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:1.601
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:47.773
And I update APT using apt 6.453
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.332
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.017
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 9.851
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.956
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.350
And persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.452
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.589
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.964
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.602
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.166
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.406
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.211
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
32.792
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.846
And the system is very low on memory 1.009
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.181
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.371
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.166
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.723
And I free up some memory 1.011
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.867
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.658
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 enabled and logged in 10.260
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.323
And all tps features are active 2.194
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.251
When I disable the first tps feature 2.558
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.075
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.811
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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14.852
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 enabled and logged in 9.311
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.558
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.530
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.715
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.928
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.525
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.067
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.324
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 enabled and logged in 9.678
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 9.850
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.591
When I write some files expected to persist 1.422
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.632
# 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" 18.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.986
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 enabled and logged in 9.181
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 11.098
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.774
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.971
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 12.945
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.449
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
Tags: @product
39.699
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.193
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.446
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:1.402
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.983
When I enable persistence 12.696
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.905
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.355
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.013
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 8.635
And the computer reboots Tails 40.843
Given I enable persistence 10.962
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.541
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.077
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
2:21.642
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.323
# 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 20.993
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.883
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:15.487
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 27.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
39.107
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 9.340
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.768
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.588
And all notifications have disappeared 9.886
When I delete the persistent partition 3.006
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.009
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 enabled and logged in 9.429
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.583
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.672
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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46.633
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 9.437
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.430
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 7.911
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.166
And all notifications have disappeared 10.246
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.893
And all tps features are enabled 2.456
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:5.840
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:25.782
And I enable persistence 26.831
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.422
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.621
And persistence is enabled 2.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.271
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.152
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.425
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.231
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 9.538
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.614
When I enable persistence 10.714
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.609
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 9.930
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.313
When I try to enable persistence 1.362
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.941
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.183
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.263
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.732
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 9.671
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.336
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.459
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I log in to a new session 12.371
And all notifications have disappeared 9.795
# 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" 0.380
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.527
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.311
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.046
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.826
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.465
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.180
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.373
When I try to enable persistence 1.394
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.165
When I log in to a new session 10.761
And all notifications have disappeared 9.478
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.938
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000