Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4302 29 Mar 2026, 11:41

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 27:29.774 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.405
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 1:24.559
And I update APT using apt 7.016
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.596
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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50.476
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 8.806
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.701
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
And persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:35.595
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 13.279
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.316
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 37.271
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.372
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 39.495
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.509
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.195
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
50.728
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 7.654
And the system is very low on memory 24.928
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.877
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.207
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.096
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.352
And I free up some memory 0.768
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.791
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.184
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 8.770
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.394
And all tps features are active 1.075
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.876
When I disable the first tps feature 2.672
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.973
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 26.564
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.468
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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13.199
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 7.606
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 2.762
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.410
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.325
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 7.235
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I disable the first tps feature 2.978
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.887
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.890
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 7.132
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 21.366
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.186
When I write some files expected to persist 1.299
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.765
# 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" 12.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.796
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 7.664
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 19.608
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.101
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.837
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.241
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 21.649
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.404
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.110
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1:1.281
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 8.444
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.160
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 30.998
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:8.432
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 8.967
When I enable persistence 28.034
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.289
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.871
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.370
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.297
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.520
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.424
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
When I cold reboot the computer 10.178
And the computer reboots Tails 38.969
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.261
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.161
Given I enable persistence 7.067
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.260
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.412
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:48.706
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 8.376
# 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 50.017
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 22.193
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.919
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
52.273
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 7.951
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.968
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.592
And all notifications have disappeared 8.628
When I delete the persistent partition 2.700
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.331
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 7.944
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.696
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.402
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
48.738
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 7.757
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.427
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.961
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.316
And all notifications have disappeared 7.879
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.286
And all tps features are enabled 0.940
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.212
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 40.759
And I enable persistence 32.699
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.501
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.667
And persistence is enabled 1.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.535
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 7.342
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.753
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.405
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 8.062
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 37.358
When I enable persistence 7.100
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.206
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 7.968
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 27.519
When I try to enable persistence 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.800
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.272
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.136
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.346
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 7.513
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.178
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 17.245
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 12.242
And all notifications have disappeared 8.255
# 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" 0.144
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.067
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.178
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.297
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:3.701
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 7.657
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 29.772
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.296
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.688
When I log in to a new session 11.682
And all notifications have disappeared 8.267
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.268
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 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000