Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4675 14 Oct 2026, 11:12

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 23:21.511 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:56.653
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 1:17.107
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.145
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.571
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.938
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 8.214
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.779
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.196
And persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.601
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 8.486
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.212
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.804
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.455
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.277
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
Tags: @product
28.974
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 7.845
And the system is very low on memory 4.103
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.245
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.107
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.445
And I free up some memory 0.489
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.536
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:7.684
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 34.442
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.245
And all tps features are active 7.637
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.496
When I disable the first tps feature 2.479
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.514
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.236
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.811
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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13.261
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 8.031
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.029
When I enable the first tps feature 2.366
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.194
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 7.618
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I disable the first tps feature 2.522
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.865
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
56.785
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 20.716
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 12.160
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.354
When I write some files expected to persist 0.883
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.274
# 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" 11.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.551
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 7.464
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 9.642
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.191
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.430
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 11.091
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.382
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
Tags: @product
36.784
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.334
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.068
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.951
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.830
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 8.255
When I enable persistence 20.305
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.276
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.805
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.360
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.275
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.574
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.932
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.083
When I cold reboot the computer 5.705
And the computer reboots Tails 32.734
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.191
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.271
Given I enable persistence 12.325
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.243
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.272
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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2:3.133
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 7.998
# 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 28.456
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.151
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.757
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
36.231
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 7.846
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.066
Then persistence is disabled 0.074
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.362
And all notifications have disappeared 7.977
When I delete the persistent partition 2.613
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.434
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 7.778
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.250
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.116
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
53.433
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 7.885
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.603
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.532
And all notifications have disappeared 7.835
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.251
And all tps features are enabled 7.265
And all tps features but the first one are active 6.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.188
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 1:56.680
And I enable persistence 25.582
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.352
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.481
And persistence is enabled 7.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.549
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 7.474
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.580
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.082
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 8.075
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.899
When I enable persistence 12.395
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.144
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 8.067
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.783
When I try to enable persistence 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.593
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.102
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.109
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.267
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.845
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 7.763
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.400
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.104
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 8.546
And all notifications have disappeared 7.680
# 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" 0.163
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.067
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.148
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.977
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.207
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 21.061
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.605
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.311
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.020
When I log in to a new session 8.007
And all notifications have disappeared 6.928
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.130
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000