Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4352 20 Apr 2026, 11:20

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 25:9.639 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.016
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 1:22.866
And I update APT using apt 7.890
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.336
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.998
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.281
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.222
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
And persistence is disabled 0.129
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.034
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.886
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.402
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.579
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.624
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.553
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.614
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.211
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
37.410
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 8.086
And the system is very low on memory 9.775
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.196
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.423
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.112
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.486
And I free up some memory 0.891
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.823
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.622
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 9.525
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.431
And all tps features are active 1.207
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.380
When I disable the first tps feature 2.606
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.580
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.248
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.237
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
14.483
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 enabled and logged in 8.253
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.150
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.090
When I disable the first tps feature 3.109
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 2.570
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.695
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 8.194
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 3.323
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.954
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.624
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 8.232
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 18.941
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.397
When I write some files expected to persist 1.570
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.967
# 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" 13.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:48.495
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 22.130
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 20.783
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.176
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.740
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.439
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.568
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.421
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.090
Tags: @product
50.270
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.420
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.133
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.136
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:2.854
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 9.970
When I enable persistence 21.104
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.541
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.242
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.385
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.298
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.559
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.372
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 6.686
And the computer reboots Tails 40.815
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.334
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.218
Given I enable persistence 7.367
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.267
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.290
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:25.702
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 9.011
# 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 30.675
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.919
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.303
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
49.425
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 9.546
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.105
Then persistence is disabled 0.164
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.570
And all notifications have disappeared 9.350
When I delete the persistent partition 3.331
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.690
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 8.573
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.076
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.726
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.052
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
48.531
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 8.888
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.119
When I try to enable persistence 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.029
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.395
And all notifications have disappeared 8.376
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.396
And all tps features are enabled 1.363
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.298
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 40.410
And I enable persistence 23.712
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.616
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.647
And persistence is enabled 1.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.928
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 8.171
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.002
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.225
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 9.707
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 16.648
When I enable persistence 8.878
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.528
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 9.001
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.879
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.609
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.236
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.860
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 8.594
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.665
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 13.806
And all notifications have disappeared 10.377
# 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" 0.270
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.648
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.328
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.511
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.942
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 8.265
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.839
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.352
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.578
When I log in to a new session 13.304
And all notifications have disappeared 10.152
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.563
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000