Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4164 14 Jan 2026, 09:14

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 30:41.502 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:39.864
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 2:24.164
And I update APT using apt 8.256
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.282
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.220
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 12.870
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.119
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.354
And persistence is disabled 0.144
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.843
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 logged in 13.575
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.442
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.562
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.196
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.298
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.211
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
36.941
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 10.607
And the system is very low on memory 4.286
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.196
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.617
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.563
And I free up some memory 0.920
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.010
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.055
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 11.842
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.405
And all tps features are active 2.283
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.314
When I disable the first tps feature 2.951
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.947
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.982
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.210
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
15.894
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 9.946
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.089
When I disable the first tps feature 2.773
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.661
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.492
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 9.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.695
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.115
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.930
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 9.811
And the network is plugged 0.093
And Tor is ready 13.478
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.545
When I write some files expected to persist 1.359
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.966
# 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" 17.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:0.737
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 9.390
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 9.777
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.170
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.998
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.275
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 12.256
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.468
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.075
Tags: @product
48.291
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 11.966
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.145
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.882
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:23.152
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 12.804
When I enable persistence 22.506
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.081
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.152
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.536
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.442
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.759
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.477
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.233
When I cold reboot the computer 12.028
And the computer reboots Tails 42.729
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.464
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.341
Given I enable persistence 11.491
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.118
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.430
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.398
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:23.996
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 11.639
# 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 28.661
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.100
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.305
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
45.743
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 10.506
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.831
Then persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.834
And all notifications have disappeared 9.964
When I delete the persistent partition 3.029
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.564
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 10.409
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.793
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.953
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
55.080
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 10.435
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.008
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.187
And all notifications have disappeared 9.549
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.395
And all tps features are enabled 2.184
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:59.926
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:16.503
And I enable persistence 28.098
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.460
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.690
And persistence is enabled 2.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.571
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 9.588
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.364
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.176
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 11.129
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.497
When I enable persistence 10.951
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.952
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 10.191
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.145
When I try to enable persistence 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.550
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.316
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.840
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.243
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.673
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 10.017
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.918
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I log in to a new session 13.060
And all notifications have disappeared 10.860
# 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" 0.215
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.513
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.311
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.895
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.391
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 9.966
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.673
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.441
When I try to enable persistence 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.062
When I log in to a new session 11.478
And all notifications have disappeared 9.862
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.477
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000