Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4652 01 Oct 2026, 17:31

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 24:54.307 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.253
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 1:23.848
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.283
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.296
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.294
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 9.142
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.547
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.811
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 9.059
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.252
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.615
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 5.698
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.749
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.247
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.051
Tags: @product
29.985
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 8.033
And the system is very low on memory 4.277
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.421
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.725
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.118
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.422
And I free up some memory 0.438
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.453
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.370
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 8.926
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
And all tps features are active 8.534
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.337
When I disable the first tps feature 3.137
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.894
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.899
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.055
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.814
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 8.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.458
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.461
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.370
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 enabled and logged in 21.088
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.588
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.512
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.967
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 8.263
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 12.752
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.269
When I write some files expected to persist 1.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.354
# 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" 12.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.229
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 7.829
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 10.547
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.618
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.545
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 10.856
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.428
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
Tags: @product
40.593
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 9.418
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.363
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.822
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 9.061
When I enable persistence 24.060
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.224
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.170
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.268
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.215
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.537
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.675
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.129
When I cold reboot the computer 4.816
And the computer reboots Tails 36.439
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.230
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.209
Given I enable persistence 15.005
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.175
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.365
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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2:15.138
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 8.880
# 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 32.914
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.372
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.309
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
42.310
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 8.826
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.828
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.441
And all notifications have disappeared 9.149
When I delete the persistent partition 2.668
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.810
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 8.783
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.403
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.322
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:0.644
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 8.437
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.142
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.745
And all notifications have disappeared 9.206
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.266
And all tps features are enabled 8.529
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:53.170
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 2:3.498
And I enable persistence 28.623
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.556
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.554
And persistence is enabled 10.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.906
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.026
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 8.911
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.409
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.590
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 10.983
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.171
When I enable persistence 14.887
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 11.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.748
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 8.588
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.241
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.410
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.327
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.374
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.108
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.293
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.445
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.398
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.314
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 10.353
And all notifications have disappeared 7.751
# 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" 0.134
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.082
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.251
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.383
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.181
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 8.374
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.387
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.376
When I try to enable persistence 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.598
When I log in to a new session 10.824
And all notifications have disappeared 8.126
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.244
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000