Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4329 08 Apr 2026, 14:51

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 27:35.743 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:50.201
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:25.323
And I update APT using apt 17.396
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.679
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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52.460
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 8.579
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.843
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 17.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:9.976
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 8.421
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.481
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 39.623
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.415
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.685
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.981
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.216
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
40.648
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 7.692
And the system is very low on memory 14.540
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.605
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.753
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.132
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.339
And I free up some memory 0.761
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.777
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.171
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 8.427
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
And all tps features are active 1.130
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.825
When I disable the first tps feature 2.732
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.573
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.927
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.126
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 7.625
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.099
When I disable the first tps feature 2.631
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.101
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 7.430
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.162
And I disable the first tps feature 2.519
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.879
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.861
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 7.309
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 43.109
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.200
When I write some files expected to persist 1.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.757
# 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" 12.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.321
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 7.342
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 17.238
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.496
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.675
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 21.850
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
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1:3.661
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.793
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.080
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.375
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 30.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:6.597
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 8.753
When I enable persistence 31.697
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.244
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.683
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.417
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.323
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.579
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.132
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
When I cold reboot the computer 10.186
And the computer reboots Tails 35.613
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.268
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.209
Given I enable persistence 6.913
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.059
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.213
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.937
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:34.587
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 8.431
# 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 45.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.802
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.656
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
53.577
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 8.383
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.165
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.510
And all notifications have disappeared 8.426
When I delete the persistent partition 2.640
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:56.097
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 21.266
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.073
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.267
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.290
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
52.384
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 8.178
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.135
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.743
And all notifications have disappeared 8.489
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.332
And all tps features are enabled 1.234
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:34.553
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 51.494
And I enable persistence 30.288
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.713
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.561
And persistence is enabled 1.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.553
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 7.178
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.855
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.707
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 8.347
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 34.783
When I enable persistence 6.799
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.552
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 8.038
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 25.244
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.090
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.456
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.185
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.610
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 7.519
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.545
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.859
And all notifications have disappeared 10.363
# 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" 0.142
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.420
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.215
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.315
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.991
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 7.665
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 26.800
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.379
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.121
When I log in to a new session 10.993
And all notifications have disappeared 8.651
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.382
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 6.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000