Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4350 18 Apr 2026, 11:24

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 26:34.244 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:43.207
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 1:27.436
And I update APT using apt 6.948
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 7.394
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.249
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 9.059
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 24.801
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.334
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:18.754
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 9.073
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.718
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 47.964
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.484
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.741
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.390
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.196
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
41.155
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 7.645
And the system is very low on memory 15.250
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.860
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.027
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.139
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.349
And I free up some memory 1.001
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.835
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.985
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 8.604
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 1.340
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.784
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.287
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.825
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.572
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
13.733
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 8.102
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.099
When I disable the first tps feature 2.694
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.431
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.980
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 7.541
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 3.286
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.942
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.921
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 7.800
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 41.260
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.169
When I write some files expected to persist 1.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.470
# 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" 13.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:39.128
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 7.640
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 19.063
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.282
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.200
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:28.291
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 23.012
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.381
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.104
Tags: @product
56.091
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.644
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.061
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 25.140
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:10.570
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 8.718
When I enable persistence 27.964
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.466
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.988
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.550
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.346
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.633
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.775
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
When I cold reboot the computer 10.308
And the computer reboots Tails 40.964
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.285
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
Given I enable persistence 7.220
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.235
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.484
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:33.008
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 8.944
# 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 42.290
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.136
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.436
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
56.847
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 8.830
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.552
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.558
And all notifications have disappeared 8.790
When I delete the persistent partition 2.700
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.964
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 8.182
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.559
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.865
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product
48.637
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 8.210
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.179
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.326
And all notifications have disappeared 8.133
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.277
And all tps features are enabled 1.071
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.572
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 40.358
And I enable persistence 29.421
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.263
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.662
And persistence is enabled 1.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.016
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 7.282
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.147
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.528
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 8.178
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.391
When I enable persistence 6.994
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.076
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.270
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
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 19.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.750
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.313
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.136
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.620
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 8.224
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.116
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 18.870
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 11.829
And all notifications have disappeared 9.261
# 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" 0.161
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.136
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.246
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.403
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:5.999
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 7.915
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 29.463
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.761
When I log in to a new session 12.005
And all notifications have disappeared 8.042
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.493
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000