Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4204 02 Feb 2026, 12:03

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 24:57.932 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:43.997
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.776
And I update APT using apt 7.306
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 10.562
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.910
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.092
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.785
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.283
And persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 33.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.614
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 9.537
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.771
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 39.377
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.542
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.548
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.504
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.189
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product
35.594
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 7.603
And the system is very low on memory 9.371
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.182
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.589
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.092
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.359
And I free up some memory 0.891
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.278
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 9.119
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.510
And all tps features are active 1.242
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.537
When I disable the first tps feature 2.613
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.216
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.274
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.524
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.545
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 enabled and logged in 7.691
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.160
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.836
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.384
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 7.308
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 3.023
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.862
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.178
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 7.360
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.178
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.170
When I write some files expected to persist 1.355
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.186
# 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" 12.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:55.987
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 7.444
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 11.868
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.156
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.293
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.437
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
1:5.888
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.906
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.591
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 41.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:4.180
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 8.759
When I enable persistence 27.767
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.342
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.872
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.391
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.533
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.678
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
When I cold reboot the computer 9.066
And the computer reboots Tails 36.911
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.274
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.224
Given I enable persistence 7.384
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.084
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.259
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.092
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
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2:34.315
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 8.737
# 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 41.920
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.125
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.479
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
47.221
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 8.387
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.239
Then persistence is disabled 0.129
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.776
And all notifications have disappeared 8.621
When I delete the persistent partition 2.680
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.179
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 8.225
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.361
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.299
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
51.156
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 8.042
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.009
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.166
And all notifications have disappeared 8.058
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.278
And all tps features are enabled 1.189
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:20.553
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 40.481
And I enable persistence 26.572
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.228
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.626
And persistence is enabled 1.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.325
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 7.321
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.423
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.732
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 8.461
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 21.649
When I enable persistence 6.640
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.134
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.733
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.396
When I try to enable persistence 1.301
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.752
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.460
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.144
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.338
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 7.982
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 17.247
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 12.111
And all notifications have disappeared 8.814
# 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" 0.214
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.099
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.163
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.324
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.414
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 7.979
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 19.374
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.327
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.818
When I log in to a new session 10.807
And all notifications have disappeared 9.454
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.654
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000