Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_web-release-7.8.1 3 03 Jun 2026, 21:19

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 19:54.014 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.401
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.298
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.981
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.247
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.347
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.351
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.533
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.316
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.268
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.108
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.560
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.043
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.884
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.167
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
27.488
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.186
And the system is very low on memory 3.284
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.648
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 2.421
And I free up some memory 0.856
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.842
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.126
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.138
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.327
And all tps features are active 1.397
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.045
When I disable the first tps feature 2.552
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.687
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.749
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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13.184
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.774
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.576
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.438
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.040
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.693
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.070
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.619
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.830
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.457
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.159
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.879
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.205
When I write some files expected to persist 1.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.251
# 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" 11.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.780
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.336
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 8.401
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.312
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.532
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.450
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.382
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.057
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40.025
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.462
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.083
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.259
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:46.477
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.408
When I enable persistence 12.043
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.901
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.388
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.383
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.280
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.541
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.257
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 10.020
And the computer reboots Tails 36.478
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.257
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.200
Given I enable persistence 7.108
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.222
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.611
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:8.077
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.081
# 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 26.975
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.343
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.694
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
37.231
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.226
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.318
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.975
And all notifications have disappeared 7.537
When I delete the persistent partition 2.711
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:16.275
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.117
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.589
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.293
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.058
Tags: @product
41.979
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.354
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.790
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.593
And all notifications have disappeared 7.475
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.308
And all tps features are enabled 1.151
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:2.734
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 32.577
And I enable persistence 18.259
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.680
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.605
And persistence is enabled 1.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.123
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.020
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.566
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.397
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.164
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.966
When I enable persistence 6.529
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.513
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.762
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.771
When I try to enable persistence 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.113
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.297
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.172
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.757
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.536
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.718
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.663
And all notifications have disappeared 8.613
# 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" 0.135
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.396
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.160
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.261
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.670
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.438
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.393
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.843
When I log in to a new session 9.773
And all notifications have disappeared 8.530
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.342
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000