Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4328 08 Apr 2026, 11:26

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 25:26.012 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:51.216
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 1:34.604
And I update APT using apt 9.347
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.286
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.618
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 8.785
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.944
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.298
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.253
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 9.064
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.420
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.557
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.794
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.683
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.197
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
37.687
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 8.094
And the system is very low on memory 10.150
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.172
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.154
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.376
And I free up some memory 0.940
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.159
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 8.626
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.526
And all tps features are active 1.395
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.170
When I disable the first tps feature 3.109
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.287
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.210
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.399
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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13.866
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 8.311
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.603
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.505
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.511
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 7.575
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.147
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.796
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.869
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.424
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 7.360
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 42.873
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.253
When I write some files expected to persist 1.334
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.586
# 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" 12.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.399
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 7.758
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 17.644
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.386
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.406
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 23.410
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.441
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.074
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1:1.378
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.946
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.070
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.281
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 29.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:1.452
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 9.083
When I enable persistence 19.522
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.628
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.776
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.420
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.315
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.511
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.890
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.216
When I cold reboot the computer 10.544
And the computer reboots Tails 38.770
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.308
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.248
Given I enable persistence 7.511
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.082
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.309
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.152
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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2:23.576
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 8.462
# 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 37.895
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.724
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.984
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
50.729
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 8.441
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.281
Then persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.635
And all notifications have disappeared 9.121
When I delete the persistent partition 2.764
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.644
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 7.907
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.073
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.464
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.950
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
46.666
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.351
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.210
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.439
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.660
And all notifications have disappeared 8.203
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.837
And all tps features are enabled 1.594
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.815
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 39.386
And I enable persistence 25.580
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.482
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.696
And persistence is enabled 1.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.685
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 7.249
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.822
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.336
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 8.085
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 15.828
When I enable persistence 7.273
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.920
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 7.821
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.514
When I try to enable persistence 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.517
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.384
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.093
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.524
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 8.011
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.111
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.480
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 12.394
And all notifications have disappeared 9.651
# 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" 0.302
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.520
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.314
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.459
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.143
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 7.699
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.856
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.326
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.718
When I log in to a new session 11.624
And all notifications have disappeared 7.855
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.835
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000