Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4251 24 Feb 2026, 21:16

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 20:38.968 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.233
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:15.789
And I update APT using apt 5.322
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.266
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.530
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 8.546
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.028
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.938
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 8.377
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.293
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.432
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.552
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.575
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.227
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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26.954
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.474
And the system is very low on memory 2.886
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.431
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.254
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.333
And I free up some memory 0.749
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.666
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.770
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 8.157
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.298
And all tps features are active 1.298
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.082
When I disable the first tps feature 2.516
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.075
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.403
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.886
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.002
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 7.606
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.601
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 7.026
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I disable the first tps feature 2.492
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.877
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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57.008
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 7.192
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.777
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.343
When I write some files expected to persist 1.207
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.775
# 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" 11.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:11.082
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 7.322
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 15.865
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.490
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.035
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 22.698
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.370
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.051
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
38.073
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.426
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.091
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.526
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:43.680
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 8.799
When I enable persistence 13.493
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.171
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.341
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.342
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.301
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.494
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.435
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 6.175
And the computer reboots Tails 35.884
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.203
Given I enable persistence 7.296
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.224
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.852
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:9.674
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 8.157
# 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 27.839
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.248
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.149
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
36.767
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 7.566
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.628
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.406
And all notifications have disappeared 8.004
When I delete the persistent partition 2.696
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.026
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 7.873
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.403
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.467
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
38.705
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 7.505
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.466
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.205
And all notifications have disappeared 7.867
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.264
And all tps features are enabled 1.083
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.681
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 29.710
And I enable persistence 19.261
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.620
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.509
And persistence is enabled 1.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.996
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 7.175
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.093
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.425
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 7.657
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.474
When I enable persistence 6.686
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.514
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 7.555
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.580
When I try to enable persistence 1.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.177
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.397
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.175
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.445
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 7.693
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.799
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.779
And all notifications have disappeared 8.840
# 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" 0.202
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.085
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.162
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.323
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.854
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 7.660
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.586
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.340
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.094
When I log in to a new session 9.534
And all notifications have disappeared 8.284
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.356
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000