Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4662 07 Oct 2026, 11:36

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 25:0.886 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:1.874
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 1:20.949
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.952
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.588
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.968
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 22.879
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.679
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.202
And persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.901
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 23.133
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.143
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.009
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.735
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.211
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.227
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
Tags: @product
30.301
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.802
And the system is very low on memory 4.473
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.742
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.081
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.423
And I free up some memory 0.531
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.032
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.586
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 8.805
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
And all tps features are active 8.062
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.010
When I disable the first tps feature 2.546
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.036
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.323
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.391
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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14.281
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 8.347
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.998
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.085
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.068
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 8.126
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.670
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.100
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.767
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 8.137
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 13.147
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.785
When I write some files expected to persist 1.012
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.278
# 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" 12.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.851
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 7.991
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 10.900
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.545
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.805
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 13.815
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.408
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
Tags: @product
39.578
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.914
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.342
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:59.574
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 8.990
When I enable persistence 23.102
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.803
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.115
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.289
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.140
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.589
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.489
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.100
When I cold reboot the computer 7.207
And the computer reboots Tails 36.299
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.369
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.306
Given I enable persistence 15.350
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.056
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.139
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.110
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
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2:18.075
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 8.714
# 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 27.898
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.001
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.036
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
39.684
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 9.160
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.501
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.251
And all notifications have disappeared 7.792
When I delete the persistent partition 2.613
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.008
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 22.144
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.472
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.105
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
58.965
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 8.469
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.843
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.476
And all notifications have disappeared 8.172
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.362
And all tps features are enabled 9.102
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:43.605
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 1:58.979
And I enable persistence 27.969
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.924
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.603
And persistence is enabled 8.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.455
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.899
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.057
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.932
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 8.866
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.158
When I enable persistence 13.194
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.034
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.174
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 8.994
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.331
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.083
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.222
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 3.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.083
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 8.386
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.203
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.020
And all notifications have disappeared 8.605
# 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" 0.142
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.095
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.156
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 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.146
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 8.400
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.079
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.255
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.307
When I log in to a new session 8.054
And all notifications have disappeared 7.822
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.335
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000