Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4189 25 Jan 2026, 12:14

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 26:3.763 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:6.046
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 1:51.706
And I update APT using apt 6.839
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.300
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.545
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.157
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.727
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And persistence is disabled 0.128
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 26.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:17.832
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.001
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 9.541
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.951
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 45.394
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.501
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.035
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.030
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
38.908
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.982
And the system is very low on memory 12.615
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.012
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" 0.225
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.382
And I free up some memory 0.948
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.036
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.932
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 8.757
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.448
And all tps features are active 1.420
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.393
When I disable the first tps feature 3.076
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.153
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.171
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
13.631
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 8.145
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.541
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.077
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.506
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.719
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 7.881
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.615
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.011
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.382
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 7.542
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 10.417
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.213
When I write some files expected to persist 1.184
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.597
# 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" 12.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:28.998
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 7.622
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 41.022
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.347
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.687
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 11.540
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.383
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.064
Tags: @product
48.460
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.727
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.148
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.198
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:23.620
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 9.333
When I enable persistence 32.042
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.424
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.194
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.403
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.274
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.518
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.631
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.227
When I cold reboot the computer 10.389
And the computer reboots Tails 47.238
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.354
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.315
Given I enable persistence 8.371
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.245
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.391
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
2:31.359
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 8.494
# 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 34.834
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.717
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:15.228
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
43.413
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.586
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.708
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.900
And all notifications have disappeared 8.841
When I delete the persistent partition 2.827
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.872
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 8.352
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.434
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.811
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
51.461
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 9.087
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.155
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.052
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.608
And all notifications have disappeared 8.632
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.284
And all tps features are enabled 1.433
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.743
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 42.634
And I enable persistence 25.243
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.720
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.553
And persistence is enabled 1.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.383
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 7.789
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.020
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.003
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.130
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 15.166
When I enable persistence 6.836
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.725
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 8.408
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.220
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.844
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.399
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.171
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.212
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 7.919
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.275
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 12.433
And all notifications have disappeared 9.105
# 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" 0.190
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.114
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.203
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.581
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.509
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 8.185
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.513
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.327
When I try to enable persistence 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.278
When I log in to a new session 11.701
And all notifications have disappeared 8.928
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.386
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000