Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4320 05 Apr 2026, 11:33

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 26:5.039 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.798
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:25.950
And I update APT using apt 6.973
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.365
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.240
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 9.396
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.616
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.245
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:9.840
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 10.166
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.457
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.213
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 38.587
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.514
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.959
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.714
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product
39.892
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 7.948
And the system is very low on memory 10.815
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.944
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.994
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.140
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.498
And I free up some memory 1.054
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.044
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.284
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 9.274
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.593
And all tps features are active 1.373
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.421
When I disable the first tps feature 3.138
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.416
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.954
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.602
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
13.964
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.360
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.713
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.277
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.469
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.117
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.717
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.857
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.394
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.776
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 20.952
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.440
When I write some files expected to persist 1.433
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.302
# 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" 13.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.040
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 7.772
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 18.020
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.549
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.171
And I capture all network traffic 0.018
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 22.738
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.375
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
Tags: @product
58.539
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.875
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.177
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.525
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:13.195
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 9.675
When I enable persistence 29.122
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.237
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.004
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.391
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.305
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.588
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.509
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.176
When I cold reboot the computer 11.011
And the computer reboots Tails 40.198
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.284
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.243
Given I enable persistence 7.178
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.250
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.809
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:32.513
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 9.378
# 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 41.582
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.872
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.990
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
54.526
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 9.481
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.249
Then persistence is disabled 0.166
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.683
And all notifications have disappeared 8.968
When I delete the persistent partition 2.626
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.133
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 8.391
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.493
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.912
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
58.821
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 8.823
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.103
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 15.303
And all notifications have disappeared 8.607
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.541
And all tps features are enabled 1.724
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.792
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 39.733
And I enable persistence 26.198
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.089
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.693
And persistence is enabled 2.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.283
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 7.256
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.467
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.626
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.190
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 22.865
When I enable persistence 8.599
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.327
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 8.550
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.431
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.554
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.613
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.382
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.154
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.180
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 8.471
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.971
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I log in to a new session 11.977
And all notifications have disappeared 10.013
# 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" 0.226
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.591
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.229
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.327
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.365
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 7.959
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.795
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.313
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.344
When I log in to a new session 11.079
And all notifications have disappeared 8.850
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.883
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000