Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4205 03 Feb 2026, 08:55

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 27:14.051 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:57.667
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:44.235
And I update APT using apt 6.146
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.318
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.510
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 9.744
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.586
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.324
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.094
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 logged in 9.908
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.030
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.550
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.478
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.211
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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33.293
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 9.601
And the system is very low on memory 1.995
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.184
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.477
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.135
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.571
And I free up some memory 0.950
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.777
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.042
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 10.731
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.334
And all tps features are active 1.962
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.314
When I disable the first tps feature 2.563
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.021
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.431
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.717
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
14.594
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 8.977
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.093
When I disable the first tps feature 2.543
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.628
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.661
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 8.911
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.538
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.047
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.617
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 9.187
And the network is plugged 0.093
And Tor is ready 9.560
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.590
When I write some files expected to persist 1.258
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.467
# 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" 17.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:20.101
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 9.272
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 9.571
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 7.628
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.988
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 41.562
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.481
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
Tags: @product
40.030
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 11.807
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 10.095
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:56.636
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 9.572
When I enable persistence 12.312
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.593
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.843
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.513
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.462
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.668
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.195
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.197
When I cold reboot the computer 5.601
And the computer reboots Tails 40.812
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.424
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.367
Given I enable persistence 10.825
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.091
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.409
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.572
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:13.199
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 9.446
# 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 20.548
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.188
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:13.424
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
39.167
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 9.496
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.146
Then persistence is disabled 0.152
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.756
And all notifications have disappeared 9.714
When I delete the persistent partition 3.426
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.344
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 9.135
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.459
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.427
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
45.202
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 9.243
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 7.943
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.447
And all notifications have disappeared 9.788
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.341
And all tps features are enabled 2.189
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:44.954
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:10.989
And I enable persistence 20.837
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.263
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.641
And persistence is enabled 2.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.884
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.951
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.332
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.664
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 9.568
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.332
When I enable persistence 10.464
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.937
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 9.399
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.656
When I try to enable persistence 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.887
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.847
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.098
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.309
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.851
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.351
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.496
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.307
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.141
When I log in to a new session 10.787
And all notifications have disappeared 10.270
# 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" 0.260
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.502
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.400
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.972
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.593
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 9.397
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.911
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.394
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.748
When I log in to a new session 10.698
And all notifications have disappeared 9.877
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.302
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000