Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4174 17 Jan 2026, 12:22

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 30:7.871 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:7.099
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 1:51.813
And I update APT using apt 7.777
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.356
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.859
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 13.136
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.045
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
And persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:2.963
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.816
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.375
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.954
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.564
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.076
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.751
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.256
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
36.195
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.082
And the system is very low on memory 4.351
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.337
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.260
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.144
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.531
And I free up some memory 0.951
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.813
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.913
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 12.062
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.345
And all tps features are active 2.103
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.615
When I disable the first tps feature 2.814
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.978
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.874
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
15.693
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 9.885
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.812
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.522
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.493
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 9.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.730
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.089
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.067
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 9.422
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 13.714
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.588
When I write some files expected to persist 1.392
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.861
# 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" 18.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.286
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 9.698
And the network is plugged 0.074
And Tor is ready 10.701
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.059
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.626
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.083
And Tor is ready 13.186
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.408
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
Tags: @product
50.067
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 12.318
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.095
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.714
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:20.694
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 12.950
When I enable persistence 22.023
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.896
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.702
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.507
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.549
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.749
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.340
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.198
When I cold reboot the computer 12.145
And the computer reboots Tails 44.239
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.439
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.337
Given I enable persistence 10.648
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.108
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.386
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.297
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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2:25.095
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 11.958
# 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 28.424
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.414
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:15.983
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
51.289
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 12.225
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.490
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.554
And all notifications have disappeared 10.686
When I delete the persistent partition 2.832
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.852
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 10.090
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.110
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.056
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.342
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.085
Tags: @product
57.651
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 11.962
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.552
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.272
And all notifications have disappeared 10.028
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.396
And all tps features are enabled 2.153
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:52.330
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:8.745
And I enable persistence 28.560
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.053
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.680
And persistence is enabled 2.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.546
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.041
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.781
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.019
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 12.269
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.424
When I enable persistence 10.877
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.688
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 10.233
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.682
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.940
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.846
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.086
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.312
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.908
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 9.795
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.856
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.333
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 12.918
And all notifications have disappeared 10.428
# 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" 0.285
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 1.390
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.279
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.948
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.154
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 10.175
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.314
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.423
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.523
When I log in to a new session 12.920
And all notifications have disappeared 9.543
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.668
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000