Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4381 07 May 2026, 11:02

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 20:49.182 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.939
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 1:16.590
And I update APT using apt 6.209
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.248
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.647
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 8.211
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.066
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.228
And persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.816
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 8.401
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.279
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.759
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.507
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.352
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.202
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
27.655
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.285
And the system is very low on memory 3.198
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.155
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.741
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.107
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.387
And I free up some memory 0.856
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.860
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.159
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 8.361
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.256
And all tps features are active 1.123
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.723
When I disable the first tps feature 2.559
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.428
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.627
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.076
Tags: @product
12.829
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 7.509
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.513
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.433
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.737
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 7.283
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.477
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.817
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.684
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 7.269
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 18.729
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.197
When I write some files expected to persist 1.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.613
# 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" 11.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:17.871
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 7.289
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 15.451
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.838
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.409
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.070
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.411
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.091
Tags: @product
35.957
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.367
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.071
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.372
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:45.108
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 8.538
When I enable persistence 12.812
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.552
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.480
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.225
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.535
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.796
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 10.170
And the computer reboots Tails 35.967
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.247
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.181
Given I enable persistence 6.748
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.200
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.995
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:4.199
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.109
# 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 25.792
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.655
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.830
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
37.171
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.298
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.768
Then persistence is disabled 0.141
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.030
And all notifications have disappeared 7.866
When I delete the persistent partition 2.699
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.531
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 7.624
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.406
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.204
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
Tags: @product
39.007
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.525
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.594
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.575
And all notifications have disappeared 7.678
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.290
And all tps features are enabled 1.053
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.257
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 29.331
And I enable persistence 18.916
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.881
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.596
And persistence is enabled 1.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.079
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 6.797
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.759
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.488
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 7.813
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.566
When I enable persistence 6.395
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.389
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 7.364
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.546
When I try to enable persistence 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.419
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.254
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.170
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.373
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.578
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.856
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 10.084
And all notifications have disappeared 8.691
# 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" 0.151
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.111
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.280
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.289
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.277
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 7.537
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.375
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.312
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.479
When I log in to a new session 10.634
And all notifications have disappeared 8.563
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 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000