Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4261 02 Mar 2026, 07:52

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 20:56.787 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.958
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 1:17.188
And I update APT using apt 5.705
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.267
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.269
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 8.479
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.285
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.249
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.067
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 8.610
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.397
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.447
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.443
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.517
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.190
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
27.979
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 7.609
And the system is very low on memory 3.161
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.551
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.094
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.320
And I free up some memory 0.789
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.221
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.493
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 8.183
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.369
And all tps features are active 1.102
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.868
When I disable the first tps feature 2.623
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.879
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.272
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
Tags: @product
12.890
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 7.582
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.041
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.425
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.706
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 7.158
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.496
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.863
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.851
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 7.217
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 16.699
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.207
When I write some files expected to persist 1.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.823
# 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" 11.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:35.703
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 7.696
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 15.409
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.795
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.221
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 41.775
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.400
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.105
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
37.318
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 8.518
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.991
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:41.521
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 8.504
When I enable persistence 12.204
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.819
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.442
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.325
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.307
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.476
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.236
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 10.052
And the computer reboots Tails 34.829
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.295
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.227
Given I enable persistence 6.975
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.273
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.142
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
2:7.674
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 enabled and logged in 8.381
# 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 28.030
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.495
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.769
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
36.497
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 7.878
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.827
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.637
And all notifications have disappeared 7.976
When I delete the persistent partition 2.729
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.856
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 7.545
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.380
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.686
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
Tags: @product
39.210
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 7.970
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.336
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.421
And all notifications have disappeared 7.879
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.309
And all tps features are enabled 1.015
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.653
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 30.468
And I enable persistence 18.034
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.990
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.555
And persistence is enabled 1.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.860
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 7.113
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.248
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.492
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 8.183
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.837
When I enable persistence 6.697
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.268
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 7.882
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.553
When I try to enable persistence 1.245
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.068
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.264
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.134
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.944
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 7.451
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.377
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.330
And all notifications have disappeared 9.511
# 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" 0.216
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.376
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.169
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.315
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.567
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 7.665
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.277
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.318
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.281
When I log in to a new session 10.249
And all notifications have disappeared 8.287
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.414
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000