Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4337 12 Apr 2026, 11:05

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 23:2.685 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.513
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.516
And I update APT using apt 6.315
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.562
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.667
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 9.283
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.492
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.892
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 9.559
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.127
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.764
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.561
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.770
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.226
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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30.072
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 8.251
And the system is very low on memory 3.131
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.247
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.718
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.161
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.396
And I free up some memory 0.872
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.693
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.167
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 8.828
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
And all tps features are active 1.425
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.331
When I disable the first tps feature 2.662
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.231
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.357
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.752
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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13.877
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 8.267
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.645
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.506
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.674
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 7.691
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.551
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.258
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.773
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 8.096
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 18.422
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.236
When I write some files expected to persist 1.285
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.774
# 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" 12.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.906
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 7.709
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 17.159
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.335
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.875
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 23.900
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.425
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
40.814
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.507
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.078
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.713
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.882
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 9.429
When I enable persistence 14.678
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.462
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.992
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.431
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.287
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.568
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.533
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.224
When I cold reboot the computer 10.518
And the computer reboots Tails 39.689
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.550
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
Given I enable persistence 8.786
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.100
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.243
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.888
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.036
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2:27.602
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.919
# 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 29.559
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.963
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:17.299
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
40.694
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 8.013
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.633
Then persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.031
And all notifications have disappeared 8.827
When I delete the persistent partition 2.697
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.735
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 7.734
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.134
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.492
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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45.688
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 8.420
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.605
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.929
And all notifications have disappeared 8.302
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.962
And all tps features are enabled 1.703
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.006
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
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 32.916
And I enable persistence 20.440
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.357
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.659
And persistence is enabled 1.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.676
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 7.668
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.388
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.892
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 8.944
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.072
When I enable persistence 7.841
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.502
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.307
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.689
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.164
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.572
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.143
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.910
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 8.166
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.427
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 12.858
And all notifications have disappeared 9.488
# 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" 0.235
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.452
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.188
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.400
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.733
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 8.729
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.172
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.502
When I log in to a new session 11.596
And all notifications have disappeared 9.983
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.881
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000