Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4256 26 Feb 2026, 17:12

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 22:3.457 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.145
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 1:19.819
And I update APT using apt 6.226
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.286
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.191
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 9.276
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.612
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.561
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 8.605
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.242
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.530
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.801
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.669
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
28.595
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 7.606
And the system is very low on memory 3.201
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.194
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.772
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.109
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.416
And I free up some memory 0.874
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.337
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.940
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 8.694
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.413
And all tps features are active 1.273
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.520
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.285
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.180
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.349
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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26.139
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 20.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.567
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.642
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.097
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 7.571
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.470
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.895
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.768
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 7.551
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 16.003
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.219
When I write some files expected to persist 1.459
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.536
# 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" 11.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:18.846
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 8.287
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 16.896
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.781
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.961
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.060
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.455
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
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40.493
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 9.284
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.911
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.807
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.963
When I enable persistence 14.101
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.440
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.794
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.353
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.336
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.547
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.154
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
When I cold reboot the computer 10.354
And the computer reboots Tails 36.685
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.361
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
Given I enable persistence 7.447
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.299
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.396
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:10.750
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 8.628
# 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 29.799
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.481
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.055
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
40.227
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 8.329
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.027
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.963
And all notifications have disappeared 8.617
When I delete the persistent partition 2.804
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.266
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 7.965
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.765
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.249
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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42.614
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 7.869
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.261
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.396
And all notifications have disappeared 8.402
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.240
And all tps features are enabled 1.033
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.145
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 31.841
And I enable persistence 20.806
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.083
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.540
And persistence is enabled 1.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.371
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 7.348
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.476
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.702
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 8.371
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.966
When I enable persistence 7.493
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.310
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 7.875
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.192
When I try to enable persistence 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.189
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.231
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.200
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.002
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 8.545
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.724
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 11.709
And all notifications have disappeared 9.326
# 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" 0.333
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.365
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.258
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.454
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.478
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 7.983
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.133
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.335
When I try to enable persistence 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.532
When I log in to a new session 9.990
And all notifications have disappeared 8.384
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.879
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000