Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4223 10 Feb 2026, 08:40

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 26:2.973 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.202
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 1:21.157
And I update APT using apt 11.447
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.659
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.736
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 8.783
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.928
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 41.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.816
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 8.431
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.440
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 35.555
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.583
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.157
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.340
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.175
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
42.950
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 7.371
And the system is very low on memory 17.252
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.358
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.842
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.402
And I free up some memory 0.840
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.707
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.911
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 8.613
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And all tps features are active 1.145
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.665
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 26.553
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.422
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product
12.987
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 7.507
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.044
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.614
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.066
When I enable the first tps feature 2.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.601
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 7.338
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.042
And I disable the first tps feature 2.901
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.169
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.432
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 7.444
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 12.108
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.219
When I write some files expected to persist 1.165
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.209
# 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" 12.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:21.115
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 7.253
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 12.082
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.057
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.245
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 41.802
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.359
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
Tags: @product
1:2.214
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 8.726
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.428
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.062
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 35.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:2.052
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 8.632
When I enable persistence 28.896
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.101
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.514
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.360
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.300
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.571
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.291
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
When I cold reboot the computer 10.056
And the computer reboots Tails 35.716
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.320
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
Given I enable persistence 6.898
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.198
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.661
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
Tags: @product
2:27.584
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 7.753
# 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 31.027
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 22.183
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.050
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
49.854
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.570
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.309
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.273
And all notifications have disappeared 8.666
When I delete the persistent partition 2.618
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.020
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 7.255
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.087
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.132
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.320
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
49.937
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.522
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.381
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.410
And all notifications have disappeared 8.166
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.243
And all tps features are enabled 0.946
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.544
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 46.690
And I enable persistence 29.333
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.413
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.592
And persistence is enabled 1.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.829
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 7.440
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.838
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.436
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 7.422
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 31.903
When I enable persistence 6.412
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.733
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 7.475
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 29.685
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.484
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.423
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.237
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.189
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 7.465
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 17.928
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.134
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 13.594
And all notifications have disappeared 9.158
# 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" 0.192
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.126
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.268
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.212
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:4.821
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 7.509
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 29.347
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.370
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.863
When I log in to a new session 10.901
And all notifications have disappeared 8.396
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.296
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000