Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4650 01 Oct 2026, 11:04

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 21:50.153 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.218
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 1:14.666
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.662
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.255
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.011
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 8.389
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.413
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.205
And persistence is disabled 0.069
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.385
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 8.502
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.253
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.625
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.288
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.367
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.168
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
26.893
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 7.688
And the system is very low on memory 3.612
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.320
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.318
And I free up some memory 0.469
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.186
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.248
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 8.073
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.263
And all tps features are active 7.554
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.582
When I disable the first tps feature 2.450
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.805
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.152
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.102
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
12.912
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 8.155
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.456
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.043
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 1.920
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.531
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 7.582
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.043
And I disable the first tps feature 2.447
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.360
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.703
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 7.561
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 8.081
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.557
When I write some files expected to persist 1.030
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.124
# 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" 11.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.803
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 7.512
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 8.019
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.243
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.752
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 10.572
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.363
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
Tags: @product
35.168
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 8.208
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.065
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.634
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 8.518
When I enable persistence 21.959
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.001
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.400
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.305
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.134
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.482
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.713
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 5.742
And the computer reboots Tails 31.643
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.227
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.102
Given I enable persistence 11.801
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.063
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.281
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.982
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:3.315
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 8.047
# 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 28.674
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.059
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.485
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
36.489
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 7.802
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.001
Then persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.624
And all notifications have disappeared 8.118
When I delete the persistent partition 2.622
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.719
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 7.629
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.121
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.725
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
Tags: @product
52.553
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 7.729
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.521
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.142
And all notifications have disappeared 7.698
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.216
And all tps features are enabled 7.641
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.432
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 1:57.723
And I enable persistence 25.042
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.507
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.513
And persistence is enabled 7.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.218
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 7.381
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.375
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.667
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 8.329
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.163
When I enable persistence 12.376
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.728
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 8.326
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.214
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.334
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.105
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.139
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.219
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.975
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 8.061
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.762
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.668
And all notifications have disappeared 7.840
# 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" 0.103
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.073
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.155
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.017
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.541
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 7.852
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.691
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.337
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.161
When I log in to a new session 8.092
And all notifications have disappeared 6.307
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.082
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000