Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4147 02 Jan 2026, 14:11

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 28:31.098 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:8.372
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 1:53.338
And I update APT using apt 7.662
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.289
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.852
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.099
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.811
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.083
And persistence is disabled 0.272
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.130
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.267
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.126
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.670
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.639
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.314
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.211
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.409
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
36.076
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 10.625
And the system is very low on memory 0.975
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.203
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.836
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.146
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.742
And I free up some memory 1.234
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.618
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.868
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 11.959
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
And all tps features are active 2.176
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.646
When I disable the first tps feature 2.657
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.792
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.167
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.188
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
16.785
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 9.626
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.343
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.144
When I disable the first tps feature 3.223
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.091
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.133
When I enable the first tps feature 2.958
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.103
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.403
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 9.953
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 3.382
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.883
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.549
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 9.622
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 10.835
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.802
When I write some files expected to persist 1.573
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.692
# 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" 18.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.304
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 10.675
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 10.141
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.133
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.833
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.794
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 13.605
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.511
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.136
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
50.158
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 10.651
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.102
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.777
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:3.635
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 10.175
When I enable persistence 11.317
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.565
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.678
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.367
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
When I cold reboot the computer 8.985
And the computer reboots Tails 41.522
Given I enable persistence 12.900
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.472
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.290
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
2:17.973
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 10.263
# 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 20.753
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.811
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.907
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
41.844
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 9.984
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.405
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.102
And all notifications have disappeared 10.407
When I delete the persistent partition 3.140
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.549
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 10.124
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.986
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.703
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
51.659
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 10.684
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.074
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.120
And all notifications have disappeared 9.798
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.591
And all tps features are enabled 2.620
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:54.573
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:18.992
And I enable persistence 22.321
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.464
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.664
And persistence is enabled 2.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.136
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.753
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.764
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.663
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 9.351
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.338
When I enable persistence 10.472
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.158
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 9.589
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.772
When I try to enable persistence 1.316
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.507
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.250
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.317
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.462
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 9.487
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.356
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.767
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 11.345
And all notifications have disappeared 9.825
# 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" 0.290
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.683
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.316
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.939
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.939
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 9.648
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.035
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.423
When I try to enable persistence 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.362
When I log in to a new session 10.884
And all notifications have disappeared 9.303
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.905
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000