Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4309 01 Apr 2026, 11:39

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 25:9.377 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:11.223
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:56.349
And I update APT using apt 7.657
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.302
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.536
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 9.357
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.967
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
And persistence is disabled 0.198
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.559
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.301
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.374
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.618
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.523
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.150
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.259
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.187
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
31.776
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 8.132
And the system is very low on memory 3.996
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.339
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.765
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.105
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.382
And I free up some memory 0.871
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.604
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.507
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 9.088
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.440
And all tps features are active 1.550
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.593
When I disable the first tps feature 3.097
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.517
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.967
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.082
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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15.036
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 8.190
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 3.176
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.085
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.073
When I enable the first tps feature 3.162
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.249
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 8.351
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.706
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.004
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.096
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.683
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 40.544
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.371
When I write some files expected to persist 1.327
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.696
# 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" 13.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:39.446
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.550
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 18.749
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.672
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.913
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 23.621
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.522
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.104
Tags: @product
45.702
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 9.982
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.089
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.080
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:0.063
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 9.540
When I enable persistence 14.813
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.481
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.262
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.556
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.417
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.523
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.667
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.207
When I cold reboot the computer 10.820
And the computer reboots Tails 39.432
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.314
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.234
Given I enable persistence 7.526
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.097
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.445
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.562
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:46.959
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.509
# 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 31.220
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.788
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:27.644
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 27.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
45.483
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.351
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.540
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.237
And all notifications have disappeared 9.360
When I delete the persistent partition 3.404
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.899
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 8.188
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.904
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.488
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
50.522
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 9.643
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.772
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.170
And all notifications have disappeared 8.672
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.819
And all tps features are enabled 1.773
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.420
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 36.733
And I enable persistence 24.647
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.496
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.625
And persistence is enabled 1.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.454
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 7.539
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.329
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.499
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 9.535
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.808
When I enable persistence 8.950
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.192
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 8.537
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.203
When I try to enable persistence 1.334
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.043
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.480
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.082
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.145
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.061
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 8.115
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.411
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 13.200
And all notifications have disappeared 8.967
# 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" 0.188
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.128
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.241
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.336
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.682
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 8.955
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.962
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.432
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.239
When I log in to a new session 13.273
And all notifications have disappeared 9.765
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.932
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000