Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4658 05 Oct 2026, 17:30

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 24:2.079 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:0.986
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 1:20.517
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.614
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.762
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.375
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 9.130
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.580
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.230
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.548
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 8.882
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.253
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.089
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 5.344
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.624
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.156
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
30.180
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 8.566
And the system is very low on memory 3.906
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.218
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.469
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.120
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.461
And I free up some memory 0.743
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.592
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.971
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 8.239
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
And all tps features are active 10.182
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.722
When I disable the first tps feature 2.464
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.411
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.910
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.798
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.791
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 8.239
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I disable the first tps feature 2.645
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.495
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
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 8.127
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.644
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.765
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.693
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 7.843
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 12.006
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.765
When I write some files expected to persist 1.404
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.607
# 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" 12.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.682
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 8.005
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 8.568
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.403
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.360
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 12.494
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.423
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.091
Tags: @product
39.234
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 8.647
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.099
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.326
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.093
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 8.613
When I enable persistence 22.911
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.983
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.683
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.402
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.300
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.568
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.300
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.214
When I cold reboot the computer 6.028
And the computer reboots Tails 33.693
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.494
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
Given I enable persistence 14.070
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.311
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.068
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:11.455
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 8.203
# 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 27.689
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.515
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.097
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.474
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 8.229
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.163
Then persistence is disabled 0.072
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.623
And all notifications have disappeared 7.475
When I delete the persistent partition 2.632
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.193
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 9.160
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.442
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.255
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
Tags: @product
56.585
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 8.480
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.600
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.517
And all notifications have disappeared 7.695
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.251
And all tps features are enabled 7.950
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:45.885
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
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 1:59.993
And I enable persistence 28.738
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.863
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.520
And persistence is enabled 8.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.879
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 7.821
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.567
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.263
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 8.640
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.618
When I enable persistence 14.501
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.128
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 8.145
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.558
When I try to enable persistence 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.501
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.217
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.123
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.280
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 8.210
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.667
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 8.917
And all notifications have disappeared 7.365
# 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" 0.244
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.102
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.305
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.232
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.654
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 8.024
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.145
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.319
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.104
When I log in to a new session 8.350
And all notifications have disappeared 7.370
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.149
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000