Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4335 11 Apr 2026, 11:29

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 27:33.322 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:56.894
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 1:42.343
And I update APT using apt 7.294
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.262
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.932
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 9.015
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 27.794
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 17.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:12.166
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 8.812
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.544
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 42.439
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.512
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.595
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.847
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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42.232
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 7.645
And the system is very low on memory 16.693
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.692
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.800
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.096
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.349
And I free up some memory 0.829
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.857
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 8.730
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.513
And all tps features are active 1.254
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.371
When I disable the first tps feature 3.000
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.383
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.165
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
14.019
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 8.241
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.121
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.124
When I disable the first tps feature 2.601
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.074
When I enable the first tps feature 2.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.108
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.847
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 7.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 3.181
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.986
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.390
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 7.669
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 43.925
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.411
When I write some files expected to persist 1.587
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.769
# 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" 13.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:54.497
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 8.042
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 40.807
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.187
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.395
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 23.217
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.438
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.056
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.073
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1:1.666
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.802
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 28.725
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.644
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 9.249
When I enable persistence 30.028
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.810
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.245
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.384
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.293
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.674
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.445
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
When I cold reboot the computer 10.789
And the computer reboots Tails 41.751
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.220
Given I enable persistence 7.640
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.263
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.093
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
Tags: @product
2:23.640
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 8.437
# 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 35.910
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.470
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.421
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
54.696
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 8.388
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.823
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.120
And all notifications have disappeared 9.120
When I delete the persistent partition 2.766
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.773
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 8.415
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.091
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.381
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.502
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
49.590
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 8.581
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.737
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.074
And all notifications have disappeared 8.319
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.283
And all tps features are enabled 1.358
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.011
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 48.066
And I enable persistence 27.266
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.327
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.734
And persistence is enabled 1.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.419
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.378
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.485
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.708
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 8.833
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 26.522
When I enable persistence 7.464
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.872
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 7.917
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 23.006
When I try to enable persistence 1.311
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.417
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.678
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.220
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.302
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 7.581
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 18.313
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I log in to a new session 12.799
And all notifications have disappeared 9.185
# 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" 0.187
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.142
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.172
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.380
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:6.158
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 8.078
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 29.477
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.366
When I try to enable persistence 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.094
When I log in to a new session 11.361
And all notifications have disappeared 8.881
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.713
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000