Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4207 03 Feb 2026, 20:02

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 20:5.739 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.782
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.680
And I update APT using apt 5.979
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.277
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.692
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 9.273
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.519
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
And persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.684
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 8.562
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.017
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.492
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.196
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.700
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.169
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
29.339
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.257
And the system is very low on memory 3.261
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.310
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.078
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.124
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.412
And I free up some memory 1.085
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.719
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.191
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 8.814
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.370
And all tps features are active 1.441
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.014
When I disable the first tps feature 2.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.817
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.960
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
Tags: @product
13.513
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 7.741
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.213
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 2.732
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.496
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.188
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 7.545
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.156
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.477
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.898
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.114
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 7.805
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.252
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.214
When I write some files expected to persist 1.373
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.585
# 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" 11.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.148
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 7.895
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 9.520
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.627
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.922
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 11.358
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.413
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
38.833
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.867
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.752
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.442
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 8.699
When I enable persistence 14.173
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.460
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.787
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.433
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.254
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.545
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.661
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
When I cold reboot the computer 9.956
And the computer reboots Tails 35.311
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.308
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.200
Given I enable persistence 7.101
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.199
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.949
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
Tags: @product
2:6.939
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 8.100
# 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 26.726
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.202
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.110
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
37.006
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.089
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.583
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.216
And all notifications have disappeared 8.024
When I delete the persistent partition 2.630
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:12.616
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 7.423
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.355
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.491
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
40.495
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.883
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.039
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.414
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.623
And all notifications have disappeared 8.044
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.269
And all tps features are enabled 1.016
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.872
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 31.115
And I enable persistence 19.093
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.766
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.507
And persistence is enabled 1.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.086
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 7.053
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.395
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.340
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 8.339
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.582
When I enable persistence 5.608
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.603
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 7.918
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.529
When I try to enable persistence 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.217
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.278
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.206
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.757
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 7.508
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.070
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 0.026
When I log in to a new session 9.858
And all notifications have disappeared 8.365
# 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" 0.173
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.114
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.229
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.230
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.092
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 7.941
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.677
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.304
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.604
When I log in to a new session 9.517
And all notifications have disappeared 7.837
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.280
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000