Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4187 24 Jan 2026, 08:27

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 25:37.186 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:7.445
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 1:52.708
And I update APT using apt 7.217
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.266
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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50.728
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 9.899
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.076
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
And persistence is disabled 0.151
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 24.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:1.375
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 11.211
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.391
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 32.953
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.486
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.393
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.609
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.177
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
34.705
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 7.779
And the system is very low on memory 9.237
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.165
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.664
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.138
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.397
And I free up some memory 0.809
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.452
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.000
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 8.744
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.609
And all tps features are active 1.397
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.275
When I disable the first tps feature 3.214
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.317
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.139
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.578
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
Tags: @product
14.215
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 8.017
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 3.287
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.076
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.506
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.565
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 7.748
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.786
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.869
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.168
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 7.352
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.302
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.180
When I write some files expected to persist 1.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.778
# 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" 12.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.361
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 7.517
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.360
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.720
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.636
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.430
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.366
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.067
Tags: @product
1:1.705
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 8.987
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.170
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.840
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 36.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:8.568
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 9.265
When I enable persistence 24.835
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.623
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.819
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.395
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.282
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.614
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.614
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
When I cold reboot the computer 10.497
And the computer reboots Tails 41.730
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.334
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.229
Given I enable persistence 7.210
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.322
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.359
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:39.630
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 8.403
# 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 41.655
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.207
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:17.653
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
52.578
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 8.335
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.779
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.036
And all notifications have disappeared 8.983
When I delete the persistent partition 2.933
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.114
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 8.263
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.118
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.327
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
Tags: @product
48.882
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 8.396
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.785
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.027
And all notifications have disappeared 8.516
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.363
And all tps features are enabled 1.464
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.826
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 38.720
And I enable persistence 25.824
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.647
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.725
And persistence is enabled 1.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.889
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 7.264
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.984
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.730
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 9.256
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 17.951
When I enable persistence 8.206
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.034
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 8.826
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.457
When I try to enable persistence 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.388
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.374
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.092
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.147
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.401
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 8.302
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.117
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.494
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I log in to a new session 12.515
And all notifications have disappeared 9.224
# 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" 0.325
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.535
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.294
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.270
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.258
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 7.682
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.246
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.331
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.451
When I log in to a new session 12.112
And all notifications have disappeared 8.249
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.079
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000