Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4311 01 Apr 2026, 18:34

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 22:20.613 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.956
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 1:22.021
And I update APT using apt 6.008
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.321
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.135
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.014
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.034
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.256
And persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.319
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 8.942
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.719
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.652
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.942
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.339
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.175
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
30.880
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 8.075
And the system is very low on memory 3.428
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.774
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.120
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.448
And I free up some memory 1.257
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.775
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 8.671
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406
And all tps features are active 1.366
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.320
When I disable the first tps feature 2.768
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.294
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.557
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.945
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
14.256
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 8.082
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I disable the first tps feature 3.103
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.553
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.589
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 7.860
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.604
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.905
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.830
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 8.211
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 18.123
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.396
When I write some files expected to persist 1.359
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.348
# 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" 12.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:31.003
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 7.641
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 16.711
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.317
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.674
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.967
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 22.991
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.420
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.070
Tags: @product
43.397
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 8.921
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.790
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:54.266
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 8.709
When I enable persistence 14.154
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.189
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.154
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.443
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.277
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.550
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.541
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
When I cold reboot the computer 6.726
And the computer reboots Tails 41.212
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.319
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
Given I enable persistence 7.038
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.279
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.025
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:9.929
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 8.380
# 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 25.614
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.370
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.670
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
38.906
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 8.361
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.924
Then persistence is disabled 0.159
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.985
And all notifications have disappeared 8.305
When I delete the persistent partition 2.743
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.508
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.163
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.887
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.158
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
44.617
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 8.276
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.231
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.018
And all notifications have disappeared 8.399
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.446
And all tps features are enabled 1.651
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.837
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 31.856
And I enable persistence 19.607
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.243
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.535
And persistence is enabled 1.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.664
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 7.252
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.870
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.126
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 8.858
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.656
When I enable persistence 7.392
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.077
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.677
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.158
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.860
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.445
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.217
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.407
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 7.503
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.608
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 11.900
And all notifications have disappeared 9.579
# 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" 0.185
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.570
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.293
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.465
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.526
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 8.526
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.762
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.322
When I try to enable persistence 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.481
When I log in to a new session 12.392
And all notifications have disappeared 8.718
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.004
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000