Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4671 12 Oct 2026, 11:23

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 24:51.278 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.517
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.607
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.924
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.246
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.865
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 9.708
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.516
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.242
And persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.391
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 9.492
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.106
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.935
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.483
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.711
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.160
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product
31.482
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.498
And the system is very low on memory 4.309
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.298
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.754
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.092
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.377
And I free up some memory 0.621
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.492
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:6.104
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 11.072
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.388
And all tps features are active 10.755
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.361
When I disable the first tps feature 3.237
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.261
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.706
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.224
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.734
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 8.322
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.488
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.514
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.895
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 8.317
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.551
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.819
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.861
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 7.901
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 12.402
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.371
When I write some files expected to persist 1.227
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.513
# 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" 12.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.419
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.143
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 10.508
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.165
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.890
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.321
And I capture all network traffic 0.015
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 11.658
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.395
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.112
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.107
Tags: @product
42.887
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.769
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.850
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:0.939
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 9.013
When I enable persistence 24.108
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.485
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.504
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.275
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.178
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.595
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.153
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.208
When I cold reboot the computer 6.191
And the computer reboots Tails 36.045
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.314
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.132
Given I enable persistence 16.532
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.099
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.246
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.716
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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2:16.621
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 9.547
# 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 27.662
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.433
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.431
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
41.866
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 9.229
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.308
Then persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.142
And all notifications have disappeared 8.455
When I delete the persistent partition 3.388
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:24.683
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 8.406
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.559
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.349
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.067
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1:0.906
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.069
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.340
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.562
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.069
And all notifications have disappeared 8.824
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.316
And all tps features are enabled 8.842
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:49.725
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:1.982
And I enable persistence 29.525
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.735
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.534
And persistence is enabled 8.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.467
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 7.656
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.218
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.072
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 10.001
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.752
When I enable persistence 15.122
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.979
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 8.500
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.891
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.762
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.468
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.172
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.478
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 8.548
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.945
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.100
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.688
And all notifications have disappeared 8.323
# 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" 0.196
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.101
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.231
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.243
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 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.378
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 8.597
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.942
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.383
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.284
When I log in to a new session 8.793
And all notifications have disappeared 8.147
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.214
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000