Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4341 14 Apr 2026, 12:55

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 23:11.863 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:8.987
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:54.139
And I update APT using apt 7.618
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.302
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.395
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 9.171
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.477
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And persistence is disabled 0.132
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.175
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 9.440
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.353
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.136
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.268
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.489
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.094
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.126
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.214
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
33.438
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 7.999
And the system is very low on memory 3.570
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.327
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.496
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.105
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.428
And I free up some memory 0.852
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.456
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 9.311
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.435
And all tps features are active 1.294
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.887
When I disable the first tps feature 3.183
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.487
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.915
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.656
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
Tags: @product
13.161
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.116
When I disable the first tps feature 2.646
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.505
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.101
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.647
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 7.794
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.645
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.007
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.581
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 7.911
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 17.521
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.226
When I write some files expected to persist 1.407
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.263
# 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" 13.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:31.315
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 7.896
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 16.846
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.155
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.705
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.204
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 22.877
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.392
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.081
Tags: @product
43.863
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 9.462
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.259
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.000
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:53.591
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 9.210
When I enable persistence 14.213
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.666
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.228
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.297
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.218
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.571
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.072
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.198
When I cold reboot the computer 9.370
And the computer reboots Tails 37.872
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.311
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.232
Given I enable persistence 7.831
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.290
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.773
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:11.904
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 8.612
# 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 29.897
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.612
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.490
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
40.631
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 8.386
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.661
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.806
And all notifications have disappeared 9.371
When I delete the persistent partition 2.877
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.912
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 7.937
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.552
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.091
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
Tags: @product
44.325
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 7.882
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.050
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.311
And all notifications have disappeared 8.106
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.319
And all tps features are enabled 1.161
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.736
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 31.646
And I enable persistence 20.245
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.387
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.625
And persistence is enabled 1.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.733
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 7.501
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.670
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.432
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 7.957
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.291
When I enable persistence 6.971
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.696
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 7.960
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.593
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.465
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.700
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.310
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.665
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 7.763
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.471
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 11.315
And all notifications have disappeared 9.291
# 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" 0.202
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.617
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.264
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.377
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.210
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 7.630
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.373
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.705
When I log in to a new session 11.417
And all notifications have disappeared 8.507
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.320
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000