Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4482 06 Jul 2026, 07:58

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 22:15.181 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.547
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.152
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.016
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.422
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.513
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.979
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.003
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.199
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.722
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.444
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.562
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.787
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.260
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.201
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
29.267
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.190
And the system is very low on memory 3.793
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.222
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.413
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.140
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.460
And I free up some memory 0.799
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.205
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.719
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.545
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
And all tps features are active 6.136
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.303
When I disable the first tps feature 3.099
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.963
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.013
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
13.680
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.653
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.101
When I disable the first tps feature 3.106
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.827
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 3.099
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.079
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.772
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.435
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 13.980
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.198
When I write some files expected to persist 1.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.521
# 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? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.849
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.320
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.969
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.341
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.291
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.072
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.333
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
Tags: @product
40.872
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.789
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.088
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.863
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.759
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.616
When I enable persistence 17.825
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.840
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.494
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.368
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.236
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.565
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.598
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 9.038
And the computer reboots Tails 36.572
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.274
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.207
Given I enable persistence 11.762
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.278
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.724
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:13.085
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.772
# 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 28.263
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.444
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.993
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
39.160
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.255
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.887
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.842
And all notifications have disappeared 7.993
When I delete the persistent partition 2.735
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.926
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.567
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.610
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.437
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product
50.633
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.405
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.395
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.786
And all notifications have disappeared 8.058
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.379
And all tps features are enabled 5.377
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:15.279
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
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 32.660
And I enable persistence 25.295
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.186
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.570
And persistence is enabled 5.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.970
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.227
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.151
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.976
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.683
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.999
When I enable persistence 11.622
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.758
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.028
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.723
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.584
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.351
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.198
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.008
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.825
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.471
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I log in to a new session 11.735
And all notifications have disappeared 9.325
# 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" 0.242
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.573
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.258
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.359
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.370
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.013
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.590
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.383
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.859
When I log in to a new session 10.932
And all notifications have disappeared 9.041
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.524
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000