Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4340 14 Apr 2026, 11:08

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 23:29.644 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.608
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 1:24.653
And I update APT using apt 6.663
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.299
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.070
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 9.486
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.542
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And persistence is disabled 0.143
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.235
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.021
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.828
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.620
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.285
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.828
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.198
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
44.501
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 20.859
And the system is very low on memory 3.650
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.152
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.461
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.158
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.480
And I free up some memory 0.947
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.306
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.085
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 9.052
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.354
And all tps features are active 1.494
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.128
When I disable the first tps feature 2.578
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.245
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.791
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.157
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
Tags: @product
14.748
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 8.536
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 3.222
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.446
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 7.436
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I disable the first tps feature 2.707
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.018
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.233
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.942
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 18.455
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.290
When I write some files expected to persist 1.155
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.286
# 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" 13.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:49.591
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 7.375
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 41.133
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.398
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.733
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.632
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 23.534
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.489
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
41.824
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 9.619
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 14.218
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:1.035
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 9.347
When I enable persistence 15.802
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.800
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.100
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.415
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.668
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.988
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 11.174
And the computer reboots Tails 40.148
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.392
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.237
Given I enable persistence 7.490
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.219
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.626
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
2:17.130
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.033
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.772
# 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 30.370
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.272
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.813
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.036
Tags: @product
40.700
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 8.365
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.983
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.173
And all notifications have disappeared 8.738
When I delete the persistent partition 2.817
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.513
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 8.438
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.087
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.538
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.208
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
44.447
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 8.226
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.659
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.735
And all notifications have disappeared 8.401
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.317
And all tps features are enabled 1.626
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.809
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 33.120
And I enable persistence 21.765
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.108
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.791
And persistence is enabled 2.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.224
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 7.514
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.992
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.507
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 9.396
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.540
When I enable persistence 7.353
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.774
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
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 corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.342
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.621
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.575
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.173
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.231
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 8.586
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.737
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.394
And all notifications have disappeared 9.443
# 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" 0.175
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.645
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.188
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.371
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.923
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 8.929
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.151
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.421
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.749
When I log in to a new session 10.888
And all notifications have disappeared 9.013
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.448
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000