Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4383 08 May 2026, 13:23

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 22:4.413 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.647
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.731
And I update APT using apt 6.610
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.390
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.883
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.818
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.818
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.230
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.219
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.560
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.394
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.481
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.640
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.735
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.214
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
29.104
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.757
And the system is very low on memory 3.550
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.154
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.655
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.109
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.393
And I free up some memory 0.994
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.428
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.334
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.535
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.428
And all tps features are active 1.291
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.211
When I disable the first tps feature 3.060
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.306
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.782
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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12.880
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.391
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 2.568
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.484
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.314
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.498
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I disable the first tps feature 2.603
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.008
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.881
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.284
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 16.551
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.208
When I write some files expected to persist 1.197
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.545
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:31.541
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.272
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 21.086
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.738
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.708
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 22.947
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.419
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
41.986
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.757
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.428
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.818
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.701
When I enable persistence 13.994
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.725
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.548
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.411
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.244
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.508
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.166
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
When I cold reboot the computer 10.272
And the computer reboots Tails 37.542
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.242
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.188
Given I enable persistence 7.480
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.228
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.099
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:13.286
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 29.722
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.504
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.107
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
Tags: @product
38.057
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.955
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.452
Then persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.397
And all notifications have disappeared 8.075
When I delete the persistent partition 2.753
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.703
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.783
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.562
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.002
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
Tags: @product
43.850
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.971
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.810
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.144
And all notifications have disappeared 7.852
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.017
And all tps features are enabled 1.584
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.066
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 30.609
And I enable persistence 20.417
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.460
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.768
And persistence is enabled 1.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.134
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.118
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.438
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.900
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.199
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.849
When I enable persistence 6.932
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.895
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.162
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.327
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.094
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.574
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.168
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.410
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.599
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.845
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.881
And all notifications have disappeared 9.413
# 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" 0.288
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.510
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.161
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.374
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.496
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.294
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.949
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.325
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.109
When I log in to a new session 10.992
And all notifications have disappeared 9.161
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.715
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000