Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4659 06 Oct 2026, 07:45

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 23:29.353 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:2.702
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 1:20.414
And I update the APT lists using apt 34.949
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.628
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.882
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 8.605
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.193
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.205
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.133
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 8.766
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.172
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.850
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.414
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.405
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.178
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product
28.723
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.113
And the system is very low on memory 4.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.177
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.466
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.110
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.489
And I free up some memory 0.484
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.755
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.652
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 enabled and logged in 8.536
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.227
And all tps features are active 9.671
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.971
When I disable the first tps feature 2.652
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.000
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.599
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.947
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
13.314
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 7.892
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.558
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.061
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.439
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.181
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 7.636
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.038
And I disable the first tps feature 2.564
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.824
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.047
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.722
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 12.416
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.826
When I write some files expected to persist 0.895
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.303
# 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" 11.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.376
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 7.565
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 11.475
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.224
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.766
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 10.615
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.403
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.034
Tags: @product
38.073
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 8.220
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.375
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:49.587
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 8.534
When I enable persistence 20.987
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.150
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.124
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.211
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.159
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.462
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.632
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 5.915
And the computer reboots Tails 34.042
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.179
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.253
Given I enable persistence 13.447
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.054
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.140
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.998
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:11.100
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 8.233
# 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 27.778
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.667
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.993
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
38.826
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 8.555
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.877
Then persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.480
And all notifications have disappeared 8.920
When I delete the persistent partition 2.671
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.812
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 7.691
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.041
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.457
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.440
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
56.859
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 7.939
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.890
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.124
And all notifications have disappeared 8.435
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.295
And all tps features are enabled 7.553
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:36.017
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 1:55.033
And I enable persistence 25.442
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.196
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.527
And persistence is enabled 7.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.693
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 7.464
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.738
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.697
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 8.713
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.320
When I enable persistence 13.848
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.099
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 7.835
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.187
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.772
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.081
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.246
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.115
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.243
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 7.869
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.117
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 8.296
And all notifications have disappeared 8.029
# 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" 0.151
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.084
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.163
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.172
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.327
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 7.987
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.733
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.765
When I log in to a new session 8.310
And all notifications have disappeared 7.935
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.170
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000