Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4318 04 Apr 2026, 11:34

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 27:2.756 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:43.324
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 1:26.625
And I update APT using apt 9.504
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.246
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.654
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 8.708
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.552
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.246
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 25.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.370
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 10.891
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 36.528
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.420
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.896
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.953
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.205
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
Tags: @product
41.093
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 7.968
And the system is very low on memory 15.835
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.557
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.383
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.337
And I free up some memory 0.777
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.325
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.762
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.452
And all tps features are active 1.133
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.783
When I disable the first tps feature 2.667
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.083
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 28.596
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.795
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
12.947
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 7.422
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.100
When I disable the first tps feature 2.633
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.420
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.990
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 enabled and logged in 7.095
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I disable the first tps feature 2.786
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.868
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.341
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 7.148
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 17.586
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.200
When I write some files expected to persist 1.100
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.851
# 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" 12.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:43.074
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 7.428
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 39.826
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 21.633
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.456
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 21.987
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.392
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.063
Tags: @product
59.807
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 8.500
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.820
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 28.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:16.098
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 8.742
When I enable persistence 37.560
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.122
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.437
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.353
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.196
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.539
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.799
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
When I cold reboot the computer 10.684
And the computer reboots Tails 38.839
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.281
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.160
Given I enable persistence 6.673
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.287
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.056
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:28.329
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 8.273
# 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 42.248
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.751
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.344
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
59.125
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 7.842
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.224
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.335
And all notifications have disappeared 8.623
When I delete the persistent partition 2.653
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.811
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 7.666
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.434
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.427
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
Tags: @product
48.653
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 7.847
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.114
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.520
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.488
And all notifications have disappeared 8.084
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.425
And all tps features are enabled 0.962
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.168
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 46.477
And I enable persistence 34.555
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.891
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.641
And persistence is enabled 1.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.888
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.149
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.676
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.446
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 8.081
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 26.074
When I enable persistence 6.565
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.936
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 8.325
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 34.647
When I try to enable persistence 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.206
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.128
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.143
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.640
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 7.850
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.166
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 21.600
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 13.684
And all notifications have disappeared 10.160
# 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" 0.124
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.394
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.210
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.254
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:8.263
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 20.482
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.124
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.343
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.675
When I log in to a new session 12.261
And all notifications have disappeared 9.584
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.794
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000