Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4301 29 Mar 2026, 08:06

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 21:17.107 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.813
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 1:16.737
And I update APT using apt 5.973
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.243
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.172
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 8.586
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.676
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.248
And persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.169
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.291
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.449
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.429
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.394
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.993
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
27.784
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 7.684
And the system is very low on memory 3.301
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.452
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.101
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.376
And I free up some memory 0.814
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.840
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.536
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 8.290
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.340
And all tps features are active 1.173
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.858
When I disable the first tps feature 2.521
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.083
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.789
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.414
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
12.821
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 7.475
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.461
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.745
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 7.259
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.482
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.822
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.138
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 7.367
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 16.946
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.213
When I write some files expected to persist 1.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.682
# 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" 11.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:3.467
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 7.462
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 39.705
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.611
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.173
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 41.739
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.443
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
Tags: @product
39.753
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 8.542
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.134
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.905
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:43.187
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 8.512
When I enable persistence 12.365
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.725
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.417
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.335
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.248
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.528
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.399
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
When I cold reboot the computer 8.676
And the computer reboots Tails 35.453
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.273
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.161
Given I enable persistence 6.759
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.243
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.707
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
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2:1.699
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 7.738
# 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 23.344
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.104
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.840
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
37.187
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 7.441
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.853
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.367
And all notifications have disappeared 8.409
When I delete the persistent partition 2.690
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.265
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 7.567
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.233
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.167
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
40.109
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 7.576
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.953
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.831
And all notifications have disappeared 8.255
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.284
And all tps features are enabled 0.969
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.847
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 29.745
And I enable persistence 18.449
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.553
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.598
And persistence is enabled 1.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.377
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 6.975
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.803
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.076
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 7.601
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.363
When I enable persistence 6.356
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.536
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 7.518
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.246
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.969
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.262
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.178
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.089
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 7.539
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.106
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 7.723
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I log in to a new session 10.548
And all notifications have disappeared 8.728
# 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" 0.205
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.388
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.192
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.401
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.327
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 7.465
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.481
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.327
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.749
When I log in to a new session 10.058
And all notifications have disappeared 7.840
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.284
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000