Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4209 04 Feb 2026, 13:00

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 34:19.856 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:32.039
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:16.884
And I update APT using apt 7.619
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.405
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.646
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 13.039
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.521
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:9.173
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 13.934
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.434
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.140
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.095
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.556
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.986
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.719
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.227
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
40.603
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 12.228
And the system is very low on memory 4.469
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.386
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.987
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.151
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.582
And I free up some memory 1.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.031
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.820
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 13.023
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.382
And all tps features are active 2.183
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.143
When I disable the first tps feature 3.135
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.253
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.669
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.121
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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17.449
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 11.319
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 3.125
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.606
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 enabled and logged in 10.094
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 3.093
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.209
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.342
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 9.794
And the network is plugged 0.083
And Tor is ready 13.288
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.573
When I write some files expected to persist 1.384
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.013
# 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" 18.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.796
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 10.167
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 11.008
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.133
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.872
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.262
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 13.507
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.468
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.069
Tags: @product
50.863
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 12.549
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.116
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.421
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:31.392
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 13.205
When I enable persistence 21.998
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.565
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.205
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.562
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.460
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.748
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.062
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 12.093
And the computer reboots Tails 48.981
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.544
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.415
Given I enable persistence 14.258
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.093
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.403
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.451
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
3:7.338
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 enabled and logged in 12.947
# 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 33.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.976
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:47.306
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
56.995
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 15.193
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.956
Then persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.745
And all notifications have disappeared 11.483
When I delete the persistent partition 3.003
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:7.026
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 20.348
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.997
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:36.039
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
1:10.927
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 11.699
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 26.760
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.295
And all notifications have disappeared 9.766
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.454
And all tps features are enabled 3.416
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
7:1.733
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 6:12.689
And I enable persistence 31.596
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.480
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.689
And persistence is enabled 2.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.680
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.392
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.441
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.801
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 14.113
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.870
When I enable persistence 12.896
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.445
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 11.775
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.393
When I try to enable persistence 1.392
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.228
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.979
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.385
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.602
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.332
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.859
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.041
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.151
When I try to enable persistence 1.381
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.934
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.464
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I log in to a new session 13.325
And all notifications have disappeared 12.251
# 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" 0.357
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.550
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.506
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.110
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.315
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.715
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.780
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 2.181
When I try to enable persistence 1.314
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.685
When I log in to a new session 14.351
And all notifications have disappeared 10.405
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.530
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000