Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4212 05 Feb 2026, 11:56

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 23:11.817 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:7.738
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 1:53.573
And I update APT using apt 6.848
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.278
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.448
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.792
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.611
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.328
And persistence is disabled 0.144
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.115
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 9.061
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.346
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.012
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.564
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.045
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.718
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
30.497
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.613
And the system is very low on memory 3.293
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.200
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.224
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.459
And I free up some memory 0.946
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.501
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.565
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 9.838
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.377
And all tps features are active 1.372
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.239
When I disable the first tps feature 2.606
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.203
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.595
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.178
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
14.391
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 8.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.131
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 3.041
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.418
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.112
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 7.825
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 3.053
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.001
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.511
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 7.542
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.499
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.212
When I write some files expected to persist 1.367
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.574
# 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" 13.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:18.285
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 7.631
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 40.594
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.405
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.391
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.496
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
41.011
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 8.956
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.068
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.707
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:5.604
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 9.430
When I enable persistence 14.240
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.442
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.065
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.420
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.355
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 5.361
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 32.555
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.212
When I cold reboot the computer 10.724
And the computer reboots Tails 39.463
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.256
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.168
Given I enable persistence 9.225
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.093
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.322
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.070
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
2:19.696
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 9.602
# 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 33.700
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.686
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:11.057
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
42.352
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 9.295
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.252
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.258
And all notifications have disappeared 8.614
When I delete the persistent partition 3.189
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.642
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 8.152
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.947
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.242
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
Tags: @product
43.918
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 8.858
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.532
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.371
And all notifications have disappeared 8.188
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.254
And all tps features are enabled 1.060
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.261
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 33.216
And I enable persistence 21.641
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.660
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.801
And persistence is enabled 1.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.578
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 7.422
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.632
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.670
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 8.539
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.343
When I enable persistence 7.808
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.012
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 8.169
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.709
When I try to enable persistence 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.141
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.867
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.245
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.804
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 8.119
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.003
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.245
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 12.949
And all notifications have disappeared 9.492
# 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" 0.180
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.537
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.236
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.535
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.599
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 8.998
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.629
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.391
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.657
When I log in to a new session 10.748
And all notifications have disappeared 8.684
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.251
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000