Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4304 30 Mar 2026, 11:05

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 20:47.901 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.566
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 1:17.230
And I update APT using apt 6.165
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.309
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.565
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 8.342
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.422
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.259
And persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.642
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 8.656
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.373
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.337
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.407
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.445
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.079
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
Tags: @product
27.839
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 7.560
And the system is very low on memory 3.425
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.178
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.535
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.087
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.335
And I free up some memory 0.779
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.878
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.000
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 8.386
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.330
And all tps features are active 1.101
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.799
When I disable the first tps feature 2.614
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.006
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.764
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.827
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
12.724
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 7.359
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.498
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.469
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.822
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 7.265
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.524
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.852
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.641
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 7.447
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.284
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.228
When I write some files expected to persist 1.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.652
# 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" 11.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:36.655
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 7.686
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.445
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.674
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.579
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 41.554
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.373
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
Tags: @product
36.663
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 8.597
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.054
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.091
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 13.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:42.943
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.558
When I enable persistence 12.682
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.272
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.701
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.450
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.264
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.502
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.895
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
When I cold reboot the computer 8.666
And the computer reboots Tails 35.094
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.256
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.265
Given I enable persistence 6.797
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.274
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.837
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
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2:2.342
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 7.545
# 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 25.220
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.180
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.176
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
36.672
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 7.860
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.990
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.722
And all notifications have disappeared 7.971
When I delete the persistent partition 2.718
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.145
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 7.384
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.317
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.174
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
40.134
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 7.479
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.135
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.584
And all notifications have disappeared 8.366
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.277
And all tps features are enabled 1.002
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.447
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 29.497
And I enable persistence 19.145
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.495
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.660
And persistence is enabled 1.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.216
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 6.927
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.673
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.990
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 7.929
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.006
When I enable persistence 6.455
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.353
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 7.824
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.722
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.832
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.418
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.144
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.282
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 7.379
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.311
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.119
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 10.912
And all notifications have disappeared 8.266
# 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" 0.165
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.545
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.194
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.244
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.248
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 7.634
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.434
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.028
When I log in to a new session 9.812
And all notifications have disappeared 8.744
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.282
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 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000