Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4323 06 Apr 2026, 18:22

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 22:1.736 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.729
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 1:20.862
And I update APT using apt 6.658
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.292
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.671
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 8.967
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.196
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.239
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.482
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 8.876
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.271
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.820
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.466
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.576
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.146
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.185
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
30.864
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 8.090
And the system is very low on memory 3.378
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.528
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.137
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.383
And I free up some memory 0.948
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.701
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.374
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 8.805
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.365
And all tps features are active 1.386
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.107
When I disable the first tps feature 2.694
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.328
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.245
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.279
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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13.314
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 7.875
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.542
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.249
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 7.627
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.520
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.912
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.737
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 enabled and logged in 7.600
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 16.801
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.240
When I write some files expected to persist 1.295
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.917
# 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" 12.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:23.354
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 7.907
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 15.755
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.076
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.668
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.151
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.434
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.074
Tags: @product
40.725
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.298
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.095
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.533
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:54.765
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 9.187
When I enable persistence 13.235
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.372
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.921
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.391
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.275
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.595
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.771
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
When I cold reboot the computer 10.358
And the computer reboots Tails 39.643
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.427
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
Given I enable persistence 7.678
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.102
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.223
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.953
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:12.130
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 8.628
# 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 26.940
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.059
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.162
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
38.220
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 7.819
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.043
Then persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.878
And all notifications have disappeared 8.339
When I delete the persistent partition 2.664
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.470
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 8.059
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.695
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.418
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
43.156
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.292
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.931
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.980
And all notifications have disappeared 8.595
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.359
And all tps features are enabled 1.492
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.478
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 31.989
And I enable persistence 20.290
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.775
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.717
And persistence is enabled 1.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.695
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.364
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.814
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.190
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 8.573
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.198
When I enable persistence 6.652
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.215
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 8.164
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.413
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.302
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.526
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.188
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.921
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 8.266
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.130
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 10.880
And all notifications have disappeared 10.095
# 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" 0.151
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.436
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.186
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.478
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.986
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 8.407
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.676
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.368
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.620
When I log in to a new session 11.210
And all notifications have disappeared 8.331
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.374
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000