Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4483 06 Jul 2026, 11:29

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 22:23.144 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.291
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 1:22.449
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.683
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.283
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.233
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 8.827
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.645
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.285
And persistence is disabled 0.157
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.344
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 8.692
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.948
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.493
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.451
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.215
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
29.784
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.461
And the system is very low on memory 4.344
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.235
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.845
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.147
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.459
And I free up some memory 0.857
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.352
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.403
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 8.467
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.421
And all tps features are active 5.373
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.910
When I disable the first tps feature 2.500
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.640
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.081
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.686
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.033
Tags: @product
12.977
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 7.485
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.518
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.084
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.487
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.141
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 7.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 2.529
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.900
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.135
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 7.454
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 12.377
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.707
When I write some files expected to persist 1.287
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.490
# 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" 12.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.790
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 7.397
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 10.162
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.594
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.379
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.506
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.370
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.057
Tags: @product
40.297
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 8.966
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.887
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:4.432
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 9.229
When I enable persistence 19.823
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.775
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.883
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.229
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.554
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.690
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
When I cold reboot the computer 10.311
And the computer reboots Tails 37.667
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.267
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
Given I enable persistence 11.929
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.249
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.891
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:19.167
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.712
# 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 29.684
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.169
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.969
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
Tags: @product
39.270
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 8.452
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.023
Then persistence is disabled 0.132
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.509
And all notifications have disappeared 7.935
When I delete the persistent partition 2.835
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.836
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 7.766
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.076
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.795
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.957
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
Tags: @product
51.748
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.142
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.211
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.332
And all notifications have disappeared 7.915
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.271
And all tps features are enabled 5.000
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.537
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 32.164
And I enable persistence 25.034
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.324
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.586
And persistence is enabled 5.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.306
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 7.007
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.685
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.618
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 8.084
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.322
When I enable persistence 10.612
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.472
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 8.514
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.762
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.403
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.620
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.167
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.526
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 7.668
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.470
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.502
And all notifications have disappeared 9.329
# 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" 0.163
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.564
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.313
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.343
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.830
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 7.544
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.947
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.365
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.063
When I log in to a new session 12.432
And all notifications have disappeared 8.528
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.861
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000