Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4306 31 Mar 2026, 07:44

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 22:50.742 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.740
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 1:23.106
And I update APT using apt 6.233
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.266
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.746
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 9.240
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.184
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And persistence is disabled 0.155
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.338
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.374
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.483
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.887
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.453
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.083
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.729
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.197
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
29.686
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 7.672
And the system is very low on memory 4.267
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.171
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.690
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 2.367
And I free up some memory 0.770
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.598
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.732
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 8.315
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
And all tps features are active 1.178
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.118
When I disable the first tps feature 2.552
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.506
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.016
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.636
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
13.490
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 7.986
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.629
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.479
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.819
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 7.127
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.635
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.852
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.441
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 7.544
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 41.454
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.242
When I write some files expected to persist 1.239
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.296
# 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" 12.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:45.506
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 7.508
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 40.398
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.337
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.088
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 22.373
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.400
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.061
Tags: @product
41.023
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 8.963
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.129
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.375
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:49.344
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 9.395
When I enable persistence 14.215
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.445
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.627
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.384
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.284
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.516
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.173
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
When I cold reboot the computer 6.107
And the computer reboots Tails 37.445
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.342
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.297
Given I enable persistence 7.036
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.326
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.369
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:13.585
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 8.343
# 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 27.990
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.739
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.690
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
39.541
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 8.711
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.597
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.423
And all notifications have disappeared 8.177
When I delete the persistent partition 3.133
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.414
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 8.924
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.081
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.083
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.096
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product
43.593
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 8.199
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.372
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.960
And all notifications have disappeared 8.284
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.287
And all tps features are enabled 1.009
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.499
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 32.057
And I enable persistence 20.476
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.449
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.688
And persistence is enabled 1.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.282
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.485
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.230
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.290
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 8.095
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.618
When I enable persistence 6.794
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.663
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 8.121
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.903
When I try to enable persistence 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.193
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.491
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.185
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.658
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 8.205
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.208
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.036
When I log in to a new session 11.828
And all notifications have disappeared 9.418
# 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" 0.572
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.440
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.221
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.427
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.341
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 8.097
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.763
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.430
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.052
When I log in to a new session 11.719
And all notifications have disappeared 9.595
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.750
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000