Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4150 05 Jan 2026, 11:23

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 19:19.704 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.153
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.453
And I update APT using apt 5.599
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.283
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.772
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.700
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.975
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.105
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 logged in 8.343
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.580
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.473
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.923
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.127
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.191
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
29.582
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 7.495
And the system is very low on memory 4.381
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.221
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.613
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.104
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.334
And I free up some memory 0.903
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.446
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.596
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 8.188
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.324
And all tps features are active 1.079
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.854
When I disable the first tps feature 2.469
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.378
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.747
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.489
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
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12.595
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 7.242
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.475
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.078
When I enable the first tps feature 2.435
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.688
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 7.244
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.445
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.831
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.748
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 7.264
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.435
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.161
When I write some files expected to persist 1.018
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.302
# 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" 11.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.523
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 7.317
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.210
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 9.275
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.531
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 11.421
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.392
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.113
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.077
Tags: @product
37.850
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 8.419
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.065
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.352
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:40.107
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 8.338
When I enable persistence 12.300
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.472
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.469
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.289
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.120
When I cold reboot the computer 10.052
And the computer reboots Tails 35.523
Given I enable persistence 6.294
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.360
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.735
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
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2:1.217
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 7.488
# 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 24.967
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.669
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.951
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
35.691
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.570
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.227
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.775
And all notifications have disappeared 8.038
When I delete the persistent partition 2.655
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.305
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 7.217
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.386
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.430
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
40.611
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.544
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.764
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.600
And all notifications have disappeared 8.159
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.222
And all tps features are enabled 1.012
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.017
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 29.357
And I enable persistence 18.193
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.277
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.615
And persistence is enabled 1.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.066
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.018
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.490
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.024
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.588
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.482
When I enable persistence 6.322
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.623
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.381
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.435
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.009
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.172
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.176
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.278
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.582
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.673
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.131
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 9.993
And all notifications have disappeared 7.925
# 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" 0.267
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.157
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.190
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.219
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.142
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 7.391
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.392
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.237
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.697
When I log in to a new session 9.470
And all notifications have disappeared 8.760
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.196
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000