Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4160 09 Jan 2026, 11:36

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 20:44.665 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.110
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.603
And I update APT using apt 6.301
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.271
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.635
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 9.064
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.040
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And persistence is disabled 0.245
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.423
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 9.005
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.184
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.522
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.779
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.172
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.315
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
29.407
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 7.749
And the system is very low on memory 3.417
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.135
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.190
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.462
And I free up some memory 0.927
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.273
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.787
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 8.848
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
And all tps features are active 1.315
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.461
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.172
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.842
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.330
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
13.906
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 7.674
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 3.296
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.532
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.116
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 7.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
And I disable the first tps feature 2.541
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.916
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.983
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 7.699
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.357
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.357
When I write some files expected to persist 1.151
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.840
# 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" 12.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.324
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 7.500
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.744
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.680
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.817
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 11.742
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.367
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.092
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.098
Tags: @product
51.694
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 22.286
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.855
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:45.764
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 9.302
When I enable persistence 14.125
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.363
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.698
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.168
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
When I cold reboot the computer 9.078
And the computer reboots Tails 36.816
Given I enable persistence 7.483
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.352
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.081
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:8.641
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 8.561
# 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 28.839
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.825
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.425
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
38.235
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 7.981
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.016
Then persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.015
And all notifications have disappeared 8.139
When I delete the persistent partition 2.613
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.746
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 7.863
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.624
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.948
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
Tags: @product
41.433
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 8.051
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.339
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.964
And all notifications have disappeared 8.286
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.266
And all tps features are enabled 1.039
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.748
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 31.502
And I enable persistence 20.182
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.466
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.551
And persistence is enabled 2.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.024
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 7.364
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.060
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.544
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 8.866
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.258
When I enable persistence 6.640
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.390
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 7.742
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.539
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.273
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.133
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.174
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.785
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 7.876
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.916
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.435
And all notifications have disappeared 7.880
# 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" 0.212
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.107
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.825
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.960
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 7.717
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.718
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.425
When I try to enable persistence 1.387
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.187
When I log in to a new session 10.339
And all notifications have disappeared 7.830
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.499
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000