Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4325 07 Apr 2026, 11:14

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 22:27.966 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.629
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 1:20.811
And I update APT using apt 6.368
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.287
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.205
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 9.062
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.840
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.927
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 8.688
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.452
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.761
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.616
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.793
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.269
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.193
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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31.341
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 8.089
And the system is very low on memory 3.868
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.245
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.810
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.095
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.385
And I free up some memory 0.776
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.502
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.426
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 8.641
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.380
And all tps features are active 1.424
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.121
When I disable the first tps feature 2.816
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.282
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.747
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.933
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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13.533
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.975
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.112
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.686
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.439
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.438
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 7.500
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.726
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.962
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.365
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 7.549
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 39.780
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.312
When I write some files expected to persist 1.256
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.853
# 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" 12.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:23.562
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 7.700
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 18.576
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.003
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.790
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.610
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.440
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.096
Tags: @product
41.267
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 8.627
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.100
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.876
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:55.960
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 8.864
When I enable persistence 13.521
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.638
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.099
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.350
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.319
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 6.906
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.961
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 6.285
And the computer reboots Tails 38.232
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.314
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.219
Given I enable persistence 7.084
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.270
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.460
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:11.178
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 8.373
# 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 28.939
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.533
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.588
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
42.986
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.293
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.337
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.685
And all notifications have disappeared 8.369
When I delete the persistent partition 2.791
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.613
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 7.853
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.738
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.708
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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44.073
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 8.396
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.367
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.254
And all notifications have disappeared 8.215
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.312
And all tps features are enabled 1.053
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.061
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 33.463
And I enable persistence 20.381
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.549
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.546
And persistence is enabled 2.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.772
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 7.310
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.704
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.880
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 8.622
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.590
When I enable persistence 6.831
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.964
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.157
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.931
When I try to enable persistence 1.328
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.122
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.598
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.211
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.573
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 7.971
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.583
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I log in to a new session 11.336
And all notifications have disappeared 9.647
# 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" 0.215
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.598
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.244
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.456
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.202
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 7.768
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.091
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.339
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.214
When I log in to a new session 11.307
And all notifications have disappeared 9.101
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.359
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 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000