Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4310 01 Apr 2026, 12:53

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 25:21.056 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:44.466
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 1:29.719
And I update APT using apt 7.348
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.312
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.023
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 9.657
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.819
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.524
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 9.573
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.560
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.969
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.533
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.478
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.064
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.190
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
37.065
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 8.020
And the system is very low on memory 9.981
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.223
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.761
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.404
And I free up some memory 0.859
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.163
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.365
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 8.986
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
And all tps features are active 1.295
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.451
When I disable the first tps feature 2.886
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.344
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.221
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.453
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
14.355
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 8.459
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 3.054
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.254
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 8.241
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
And I disable the first tps feature 2.745
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.025
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.799
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 7.749
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 19.689
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.218
When I write some files expected to persist 1.375
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.791
# 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" 13.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:19.116
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.041
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 19.482
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.963
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.151
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 22.664
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.453
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.084
Tags: @product
50.975
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.254
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.117
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.741
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:10.706
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 9.671
When I enable persistence 22.454
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.599
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.314
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.354
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.291
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.654
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.700
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.197
When I cold reboot the computer 10.581
And the computer reboots Tails 42.144
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.392
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.303
Given I enable persistence 9.008
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.090
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.272
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.455
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
2:27.910
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 9.012
# 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 36.790
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.510
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.644
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
1:9.146
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 23.783
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.164
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.646
And all notifications have disappeared 9.148
When I delete the persistent partition 2.852
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.187
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 8.130
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.751
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.020
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
53.194
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 8.521
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.628
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.713
And all notifications have disappeared 8.370
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.338
And all tps features are enabled 1.914
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.054
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 38.924
And I enable persistence 28.125
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.383
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.756
And persistence is enabled 1.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.020
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 7.671
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.741
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.708
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 9.590
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 15.435
When I enable persistence 8.495
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.057
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 9.349
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.990
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.299
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.707
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.147
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.939
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 8.316
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.084
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 12.701
And all notifications have disappeared 10.727
# 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" 0.137
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.461
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.187
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.790
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.183
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 9.100
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.560
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.369
When I try to enable persistence 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.075
When I log in to a new session 13.646
And all notifications have disappeared 9.279
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.002
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000