Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4154 06 Jan 2026, 12:47

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 30:40.682 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:13.513
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 1:58.234
And I update APT using apt 7.892
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.342
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.466
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.372
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.807
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.337
And persistence is disabled 0.171
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:7.067
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 13.514
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.330
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.150
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.843
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.575
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.415
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.953
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.231
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
38.086
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 11.095
And the system is very low on memory 4.541
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.231
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.861
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.257
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.581
And I free up some memory 0.977
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.966
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.722
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 13.516
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.377
And all tps features are active 2.234
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.403
When I disable the first tps feature 2.691
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.232
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.647
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.653
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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17.091
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 10.433
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 3.115
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 3.082
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.106
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 9.415
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 3.232
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.255
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.417
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 9.409
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 11.393
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.573
When I write some files expected to persist 1.269
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.885
# 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" 17.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:1.683
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.875
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 11.024
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.831
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.721
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 13.240
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.410
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.097
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.071
Tags: @product
53.316
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.299
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.158
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.973
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:18.444
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 13.541
When I enable persistence 24.761
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.362
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.545
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.807
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.200
When I cold reboot the computer 7.608
And the computer reboots Tails 43.485
Given I enable persistence 11.028
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.618
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.336
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:29.037
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 11.411
# 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 31.426
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.554
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:17.154
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
48.165
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 10.668
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.332
Then persistence is disabled 0.140
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.224
And all notifications have disappeared 10.480
When I delete the persistent partition 2.940
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.355
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 11.404
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.585
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.657
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
56.324
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 10.641
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.150
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.415
And all notifications have disappeared 10.104
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.455
And all tps features are enabled 2.260
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:12.135
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 5:28.033
And I enable persistence 28.813
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.331
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.660
And persistence is enabled 2.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.194
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 9.292
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.265
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.163
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 11.984
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.222
When I enable persistence 9.524
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.862
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 10.439
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.002
When I try to enable persistence 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.043
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.233
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.272
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.904
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.823
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 1.347
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.872
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 13.414
And all notifications have disappeared 10.278
# 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" 0.256
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.675
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.316
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.253
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.624
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 9.925
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.777
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.378
When I try to enable persistence 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.611
When I log in to a new session 13.043
And all notifications have disappeared 9.906
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.314
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000