Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4322 06 Apr 2026, 15:11

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 25:53.978 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:45.560
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 1:29.212
And I update APT using apt 9.095
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.264
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.093
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 8.955
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.476
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.258
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:11.463
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 11.320
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.476
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 37.933
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.454
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.535
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.378
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.197
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
40.464
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 7.541
And the system is very low on memory 15.306
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.816
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.068
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.162
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.355
And I free up some memory 0.873
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.286
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.486
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 9.364
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.743
And all tps features are active 1.387
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.210
When I disable the first tps feature 2.723
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.333
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.749
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.844
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.405
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 7.295
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 3.216
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.811
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 7.259
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.147
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 3.378
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.914
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.346
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 7.402
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 21.863
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.225
When I write some files expected to persist 1.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.353
# 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" 12.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:23.485
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 7.216
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 17.948
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.277
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.153
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 22.150
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.392
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.069
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1:19.440
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 21.403
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 26.222
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 30.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:26.430
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 8.591
When I enable persistence 45.197
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.304
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.640
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.392
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.264
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.559
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.131
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.178
When I cold reboot the computer 9.262
And the computer reboots Tails 38.165
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.286
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.159
Given I enable persistence 7.284
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.096
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.210
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.523
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
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2:29.357
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 8.070
# 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 45.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.440
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.608
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
50.830
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.644
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.867
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.483
And all notifications have disappeared 8.645
When I delete the persistent partition 2.710
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.420
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 7.472
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.075
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.241
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.421
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
Tags: @product
47.238
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 7.498
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.031
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.208
And all notifications have disappeared 7.742
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.337
And all tps features are enabled 1.033
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:20.680
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 41.346
And I enable persistence 26.211
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.839
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.587
And persistence is enabled 1.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.169
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 7.205
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 10.341
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.147
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 7.914
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 18.722
When I enable persistence 6.688
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.378
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 7.629
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 20.984
When I try to enable persistence 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.593
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.417
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.196
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.922
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 7.525
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.187
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.662
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.135
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.762
And all notifications have disappeared 8.829
# 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" 0.140
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.097
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.177
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.306
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.845
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 7.500
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.028
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.318
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.987
When I log in to a new session 12.303
And all notifications have disappeared 8.860
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.873
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000