Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4319 05 Apr 2026, 07:55

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 22:45.793 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.360
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 1:22.760
And I update APT using apt 7.297
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.244
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.232
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 9.520
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.246
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
And persistence is disabled 0.132
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.863
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 8.833
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.226
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.578
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.101
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.333
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.221
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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32.804
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 9.149
And the system is very low on memory 3.485
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.347
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.687
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.101
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.512
And I free up some memory 1.159
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.871
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.249
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 8.740
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And all tps features are active 1.533
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.137
When I disable the first tps feature 3.087
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.571
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.565
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.132
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
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13.734
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 7.605
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 3.021
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.670
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.108
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.454
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 7.735
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I disable the first tps feature 2.586
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.945
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.863
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 8.338
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 17.890
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.280
When I write some files expected to persist 1.390
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.277
# 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" 12.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:33.977
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 8.051
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 21.256
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 19.872
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.031
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 23.937
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.428
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.051
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
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39.598
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.856
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.090
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.055
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:55.640
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 9.289
When I enable persistence 14.079
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.738
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.084
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.305
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.215
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.544
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.408
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.225
When I cold reboot the computer 9.239
And the computer reboots Tails 39.164
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.290
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.210
Given I enable persistence 7.511
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.335
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.734
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:15.702
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.221
# 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 31.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.261
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.515
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
39.435
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 7.822
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.718
Then persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.916
And all notifications have disappeared 8.567
When I delete the persistent partition 2.901
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.221
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 7.608
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.734
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.554
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
43.930
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 8.299
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.564
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.512
And all notifications have disappeared 8.113
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.409
And all tps features are enabled 1.097
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.310
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 33.940
And I enable persistence 22.436
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.590
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.721
And persistence is enabled 1.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.448
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 7.342
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.529
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.737
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 8.774
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.712
When I enable persistence 7.064
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.097
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 8.060
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.209
When I try to enable persistence 1.328
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.383
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.666
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.208
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.967
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 7.618
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.117
When I try to enable persistence 1.379
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.812
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 12.685
And all notifications have disappeared 9.818
# 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" 0.173
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.567
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.187
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.493
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.161
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 8.480
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.951
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.370
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.720
When I log in to a new session 10.994
And all notifications have disappeared 9.647
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.018
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000