Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4199 30 Jan 2026, 11:23

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 19:46.388 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:27.955
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 1:15.425
And I update APT using apt 5.472
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.295
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.609
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 8.514
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.495
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.283
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.349
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 21.196
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.133
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.410
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.996
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.952
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.185
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
27.359
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 7.405
And the system is very low on memory 3.018
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.316
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.719
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.085
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.317
And I free up some memory 0.773
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.663
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.993
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 8.204
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.433
And all tps features are active 1.117
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.970
When I disable the first tps feature 2.493
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.040
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.312
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.359
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
12.837
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 7.403
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.101
When I disable the first tps feature 2.561
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.424
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.881
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 7.347
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.532
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.830
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
39.119
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 7.386
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.448
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.161
When I write some files expected to persist 1.005
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.355
# 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" 11.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.663
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 7.296
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 10.907
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.323
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.420
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 12.037
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.341
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.091
Tags: @product
37.676
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 8.420
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.956
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:42.484
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 8.333
When I enable persistence 12.319
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.322
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.450
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.322
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.532
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.212
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
When I cold reboot the computer 8.666
And the computer reboots Tails 35.834
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.292
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.228
Given I enable persistence 6.798
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.241
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.245
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:7.940
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 7.754
# 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 26.997
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.433
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.946
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
37.114
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 7.789
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.169
Then persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.708
And all notifications have disappeared 8.183
When I delete the persistent partition 2.794
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.655
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 7.554
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.211
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.610
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
Tags: @product
39.586
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 7.648
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.811
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.843
And all notifications have disappeared 7.746
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.231
And all tps features are enabled 1.056
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.032
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 29.441
And I enable persistence 19.496
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.780
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.718
And persistence is enabled 1.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.652
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 7.176
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.814
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.984
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 7.512
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.128
When I enable persistence 6.587
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.168
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.456
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.453
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.299
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.409
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.173
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.037
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 7.296
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.098
When I try to enable persistence 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 7.819
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I log in to a new session 10.619
And all notifications have disappeared 8.442
# 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" 0.142
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.094
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.159
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.178
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.286
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 7.331
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.317
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.342
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.955
When I log in to a new session 10.576
And all notifications have disappeared 8.532
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.213
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 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000