Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4629 19 Sep 2026, 11:10

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 22:18.664 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.731
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.090
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.803
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.201
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.894
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 8.448
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.083
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.244
And persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.038
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 8.572
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.238
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.008
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.427
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.489
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.140
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
42.759
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 21.402
And the system is very low on memory 5.125
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.178
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.109
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 2.425
And I free up some memory 0.454
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.898
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.711
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 8.109
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.273
And all tps features are active 7.633
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.446
When I disable the first tps feature 2.468
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.926
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.246
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.583
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.524
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 8.276
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.510
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.041
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 2.387
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.043
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.341
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 7.664
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.045
And I disable the first tps feature 2.455
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.045
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.488
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 7.500
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 8.145
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.538
When I write some files expected to persist 0.927
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.153
# 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" 11.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.655
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 7.676
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 9.602
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.203
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.467
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 12.025
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.361
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.053
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.087
Tags: @product
37.901
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 8.347
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 11.967
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.386
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.441
When I enable persistence 21.590
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.400
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.092
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.192
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.212
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.563
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.458
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
When I cold reboot the computer 6.938
And the computer reboots Tails 32.250
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.220
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.240
Given I enable persistence 12.405
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.054
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.164
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.941
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:3.182
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 8.082
# 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 27.760
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.145
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.844
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
37.369
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 8.518
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.880
Then persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.134
And all notifications have disappeared 7.893
When I delete the persistent partition 2.611
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.925
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 8.255
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.305
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.147
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.078
Tags: @product
54.884
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 8.270
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.721
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.907
And all notifications have disappeared 8.351
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.210
And all tps features are enabled 6.965
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:33.780
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 1:54.285
And I enable persistence 24.597
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.765
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.510
And persistence is enabled 7.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.747
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.370
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.889
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.690
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 8.510
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.409
When I enable persistence 11.964
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.594
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 7.804
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.404
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.490
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.115
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.173
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.225
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.942
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 7.952
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.281
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 8.263
And all notifications have disappeared 7.684
# 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" 0.129
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.084
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.133
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.996
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.113
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 7.894
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.666
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.375
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.282
When I log in to a new session 7.808
And all notifications have disappeared 6.915
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.069
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000