Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4282 16 Mar 2026, 07:55

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 25:10.270 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.698
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 1:21.221
And I update APT using apt 6.246
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.320
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
48.206
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 9.561
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.419
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
And persistence is disabled 0.128
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 21.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:0.256
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 8.764
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.450
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.121
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.790
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.497
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.000
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.396
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.184
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
43.840
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 7.390
And the system is very low on memory 18.360
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.121
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.924
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.089
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.331
And I free up some memory 0.801
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.768
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:1.216
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 8.534
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.485
And all tps features are active 1.234
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.922
When I disable the first tps feature 2.598
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.001
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 32.783
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.473
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
12.836
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 7.535
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.487
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.428
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.017
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 7.139
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.868
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.809
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.044
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 7.297
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 16.612
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.222
When I write some files expected to persist 1.160
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.182
# 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" 12.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:24.599
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 7.690
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 17.608
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.468
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.503
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 22.562
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.409
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
57.396
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 8.508
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.194
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.421
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 33.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:6.809
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 8.731
When I enable persistence 30.093
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.234
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.409
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.439
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.225
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.555
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.203
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.226
When I cold reboot the computer 7.776
And the computer reboots Tails 37.764
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.281
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
Given I enable persistence 7.431
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.259
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.725
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
2:19.902
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.054
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.155
# 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 34.835
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.943
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.429
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
56.431
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.087
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.293
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 20.099
And all notifications have disappeared 8.844
When I delete the persistent partition 2.692
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.260
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 7.890
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.091
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.949
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
49.193
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 7.805
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.901
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.344
And all notifications have disappeared 8.313
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.353
And all tps features are enabled 1.233
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.227
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 37.464
And I enable persistence 27.346
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.288
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.577
And persistence is enabled 1.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.757
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 7.055
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.099
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.746
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 8.403
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.062
When I enable persistence 6.603
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.783
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 8.087
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.243
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.611
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.196
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.169
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 7.909
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.133
When I try to enable persistence 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.570
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.920
And all notifications have disappeared 9.626
# 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" 0.177
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.984
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.202
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.333
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.877
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 8.044
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.876
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.309
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.900
When I log in to a new session 10.841
And all notifications have disappeared 8.463
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.426
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000