Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4303 30 Mar 2026, 07:38

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 20:41.012 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.799
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.932
And I update APT using apt 5.843
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.246
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.171
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 8.504
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.217
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.323
And persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.508
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 8.378
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.123
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.449
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.506
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
28.260
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.615
And the system is very low on memory 3.732
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.162
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.545
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.092
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.424
And I free up some memory 0.834
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.795
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.626
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 8.003
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And all tps features are active 1.105
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.115
When I disable the first tps feature 2.500
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.742
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.779
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.080
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 7.734
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.724
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 7.192
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.488
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.851
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.621
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 7.249
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 16.474
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.274
When I write some files expected to persist 1.263
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.670
# 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" 11.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.864
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 7.490
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 15.942
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.553
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.463
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 22.725
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.373
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.045
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
Tags: @product
36.752
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 8.532
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.059
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.947
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:43.023
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 8.523
When I enable persistence 12.779
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.100
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.486
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.319
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.492
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.339
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
When I cold reboot the computer 8.914
And the computer reboots Tails 35.951
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.306
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.205
Given I enable persistence 6.904
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.269
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.830
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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2:4.947
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 8.375
# 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 26.259
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.348
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.586
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
38.017
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 8.478
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.827
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.484
And all notifications have disappeared 8.006
When I delete the persistent partition 2.802
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:20.065
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 7.732
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.376
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.664
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
39.551
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 7.505
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.540
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.626
And all notifications have disappeared 8.168
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.299
And all tps features are enabled 1.119
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.981
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 29.462
And I enable persistence 18.621
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.842
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.608
And persistence is enabled 1.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.207
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 7.042
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.561
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.131
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.618
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.418
When I enable persistence 6.502
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.842
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 7.535
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.581
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.995
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.225
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.132
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.346
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 7.447
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.316
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.928
And all notifications have disappeared 8.768
# 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" 0.141
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.080
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.148
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.226
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.486
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 7.585
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.176
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.328
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.223
When I log in to a new session 9.905
And all notifications have disappeared 7.948
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 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000