Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4382 08 May 2026, 10:55

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 21:36.440 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.081
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 1:18.201
And I update APT using apt 5.807
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.259
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.490
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 8.665
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.136
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.247
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.358
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 8.391
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.081
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.460
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.606
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.179
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
27.645
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 7.173
And the system is very low on memory 3.225
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.150
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.935
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 2.382
And I free up some memory 0.804
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.797
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.153
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" 0.356
And all tps features are active 1.280
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.913
When I disable the first tps feature 2.522
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.522
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.570
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
13.356
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 7.389
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 3.056
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.495
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.966
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 7.331
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.548
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.917
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:3.169
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 7.746
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 17.503
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.274
When I write some files expected to persist 1.424
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.066
# 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" 12.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:22.219
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 7.380
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 17.502
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.044
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.125
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 22.292
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.445
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.125
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
40.615
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.529
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.089
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.591
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.474
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 8.789
When I enable persistence 13.599
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.907
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.559
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.313
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.279
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.495
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.721
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 8.873
And the computer reboots Tails 37.145
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.315
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.168
Given I enable persistence 7.299
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.225
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.398
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:13.337
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 8.803
# 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 29.028
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.912
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.358
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
38.247
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 7.929
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.826
Then persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.174
And all notifications have disappeared 8.059
When I delete the persistent partition 2.809
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.032
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 8.210
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.595
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.910
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
42.178
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 7.742
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.491
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.282
And all notifications have disappeared 7.747
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.259
And all tps features are enabled 1.147
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.564
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 29.868
And I enable persistence 20.790
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.518
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.623
And persistence is enabled 1.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.404
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 7.455
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.382
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.517
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 7.874
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.476
When I enable persistence 7.127
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.436
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 7.562
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.640
When I try to enable persistence 1.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.193
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.387
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.192
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.167
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 7.421
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.758
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 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.894
And all notifications have disappeared 9.033
# 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" 0.235
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.103
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.178
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.381
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.022
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 7.743
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.964
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.378
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.677
When I log in to a new session 11.852
And all notifications have disappeared 8.612
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.789
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000