Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4365 29 Apr 2026, 11:25

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 25:28.669 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:48.511
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 1:33.215
And I update APT using apt 7.904
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.300
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.966
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 10.201
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.411
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
And persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:0.431
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 10.190
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.393
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.389
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.553
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.809
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.316
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.595
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
37.476
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.721
And the system is very low on memory 8.805
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.162
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.674
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.162
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.389
And I free up some memory 0.840
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.035
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.501
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 9.836
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.500
And all tps features are active 1.484
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.215
When I disable the first tps feature 3.419
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.479
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.785
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.615
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
14.598
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 8.269
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.164
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.098
When I disable the first tps feature 3.201
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 2.557
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.061
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 7.893
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.783
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.181
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.508
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 7.904
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 22.670
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.302
When I write some files expected to persist 1.360
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.119
# 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" 14.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:41.850
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 8.139
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 20.794
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.187
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.610
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 23.328
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.388
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
50.851
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.227
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.120
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.575
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.706
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 9.404
When I enable persistence 23.146
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.731
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.496
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.380
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.237
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.545
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.766
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
When I cold reboot the computer 10.544
And the computer reboots Tails 38.346
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.360
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.280
Given I enable persistence 9.302
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.103
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.289
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.456
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
2:26.418
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 9.109
# 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 34.586
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.133
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:13.143
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
51.250
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 8.653
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.402
Then persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.482
And all notifications have disappeared 9.479
When I delete the persistent partition 2.757
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.091
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 8.416
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.706
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.527
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
48.453
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 7.933
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.778
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.544
And all notifications have disappeared 8.421
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.421
And all tps features are enabled 1.756
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.166
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.035
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 41.962
And I enable persistence 27.548
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.781
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.767
And persistence is enabled 2.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.872
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 7.538
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.612
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.139
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 9.200
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.900
When I enable persistence 7.764
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.232
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 8.350
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.928
When I try to enable persistence 1.317
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.523
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.558
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.165
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.233
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 8.646
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.256
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 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I log in to a new session 13.025
And all notifications have disappeared 10.718
# 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" 0.190
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.527
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.322
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.538
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.345
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 8.056
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.090
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.363
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.941
When I log in to a new session 12.155
And all notifications have disappeared 8.935
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.535
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000