Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4290 23 Mar 2026, 15:31

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 21:55.424 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.315
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.163
And I update APT using apt 5.947
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.284
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.739
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.881
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.616
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.260
And persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.348
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 9.183
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.275
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.473
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.130
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.558
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.184
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
29.993
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 7.844
And the system is very low on memory 4.271
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.213
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.697
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.374
And I free up some memory 0.894
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.529
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.516
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 8.376
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
And all tps features are active 1.266
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.300
When I disable the first tps feature 2.570
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.765
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.567
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
Tags: @product
13.940
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 8.087
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.995
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.462
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.451
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 7.314
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 3.080
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.886
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.780
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 7.378
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 17.042
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.272
When I write some files expected to persist 1.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.340
# 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" 12.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:47.096
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 7.599
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 17.070
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.935
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.532
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 42.220
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
Tags: @product
41.493
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 8.753
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.137
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.592
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.154
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 9.369
When I enable persistence 15.537
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.340
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.749
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.276
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.197
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.490
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.800
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
When I cold reboot the computer 8.867
And the computer reboots Tails 37.324
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.255
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
Given I enable persistence 7.013
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.201
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.119
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
2:8.788
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 8.062
# 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 25.915
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.412
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.713
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
38.760
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.029
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.941
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.202
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.787
And all notifications have disappeared 8.511
When I delete the persistent partition 2.816
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.980
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 8.086
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.540
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.965
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
41.275
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 7.557
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.011
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.782
And all notifications have disappeared 8.157
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.271
And all tps features are enabled 1.058
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.856
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.173
And I enable persistence 20.841
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.484
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.653
And persistence is enabled 1.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.368
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 7.250
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.508
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.768
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 7.494
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.981
When I enable persistence 6.577
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.041
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.956
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 7.760
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.921
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.090
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.453
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.190
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.971
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 8.169
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.625
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.051
And all notifications have disappeared 9.518
# 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" 0.153
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.468
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.160
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.514
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.865
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 7.905
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.679
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.545
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.097
When I log in to a new session 9.959
And all notifications have disappeared 9.054
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.675
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000