Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4262 02 Mar 2026, 11:44

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 20:57.582 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.929
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 1:16.519
And I update APT using apt 5.320
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.250
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.761
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 8.713
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.557
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.257
And persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.355
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 8.327
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.266
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.310
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.430
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.529
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.177
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.167
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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27.044
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 7.483
And the system is very low on memory 2.792
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.216
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.349
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.099
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.406
And I free up some memory 0.807
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.798
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.254
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 8.307
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
And all tps features are active 1.395
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.927
When I disable the first tps feature 2.477
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.686
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.973
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
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12.555
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 7.246
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.997
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 7.442
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.538
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.857
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.667
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 7.155
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 15.546
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.232
When I write some files expected to persist 1.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.650
# 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" 11.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:34.627
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 7.301
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 15.392
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.707
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.884
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 41.428
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.476
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.082
Tags: @product
37.972
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.752
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.094
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.624
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:45.909
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 8.657
When I enable persistence 12.802
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.420
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.362
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.348
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.205
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.624
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.504
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 10.136
And the computer reboots Tails 35.635
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.245
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
Given I enable persistence 6.678
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.208
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.492
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
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2:3.646
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 8.074
# 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 25.933
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.511
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.752
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
37.087
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.688
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.577
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.113
And all notifications have disappeared 8.508
When I delete the persistent partition 2.732
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:13.767
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 7.519
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.042
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.581
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.394
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
40.129
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 7.556
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.358
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.951
And all notifications have disappeared 7.770
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.250
And all tps features are enabled 1.008
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.586
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.149
And I enable persistence 19.011
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.488
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.527
And persistence is enabled 1.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.894
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.204
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.115
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.666
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 7.821
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.615
When I enable persistence 6.544
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.036
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.353
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 7.576
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.639
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.017
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.398
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.189
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.721
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 the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.559
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I log in to a new session 11.090
And all notifications have disappeared 8.296
# 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" 0.310
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.142
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.234
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.346
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.653
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 7.743
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.984
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.529
When I log in to a new session 9.945
And all notifications have disappeared 8.735
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.312
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000