Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4264 04 Mar 2026, 09:15

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 33:10.787 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:22.065
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 2:6.843
And I update APT using apt 7.389
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.441
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.757
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 13.498
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.666
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.330
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:11.461
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 logged in 13.823
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.519
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.142
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.648
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.607
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.939
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.139
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.575
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
38.492
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 logged in 11.754
And the system is very low on memory 3.884
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.269
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.649
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.377
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.821
And I free up some memory 1.048
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.096
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:1.010
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 13.809
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.431
And all tps features are active 2.347
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.312
When I disable the first tps feature 2.801
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.718
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.876
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.648
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
17.110
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.015
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 2.919
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.611
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.908
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 10.505
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.119
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 3.015
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.114
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.385
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 10.228
And the network is plugged 0.068
And Tor is ready 22.758
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.836
When I write some files expected to persist 1.441
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.914
# 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" 18.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:54.221
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 10.431
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 19.913
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.166
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.742
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:33.788
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.087
And Tor is ready 24.044
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.441
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.083
Tags: @product
54.823
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.068
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.112
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.204
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:30.412
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 18.823
When I enable persistence 24.742
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.951
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.292
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.578
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.468
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.685
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.829
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
When I cold reboot the computer 7.699
And the computer reboots Tails 43.995
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.476
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.378
Given I enable persistence 12.807
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.186
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.441
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.663
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:39.619
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 13.299
# 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 32.906
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.643
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:18.415
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
49.939
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 11.376
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.837
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.940
And all notifications have disappeared 10.789
When I delete the persistent partition 3.436
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.093
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 10.833
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.065
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.851
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
58.930
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 11.506
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.719
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.599
And all notifications have disappeared 10.044
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.371
And all tps features are enabled 2.288
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:14.740
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 5:29.177
And I enable persistence 30.267
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.301
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.769
And persistence is enabled 2.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.732
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 9.362
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.667
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.732
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 12.616
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.504
When I enable persistence 10.852
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.088
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.156
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 11.226
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.997
When I try to enable persistence 1.356
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.113
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.714
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.239
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.753
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 11.628
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.673
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.360
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 13.164
And all notifications have disappeared 11.426
# 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" 0.215
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.550
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.359
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.981
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.436
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.779
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.345
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.485
When I try to enable persistence 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.472
When I log in to a new session 13.205
And all notifications have disappeared 12.026
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.443
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000