Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4214 05 Feb 2026, 15:17

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 20:59.575 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.525
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 1:19.277
And I update APT using apt 6.041
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.264
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.889
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 8.675
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.236
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.145
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 8.959
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.463
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.406
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.572
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
Tags: @product
29.505
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 7.733
And the system is very low on memory 2.900
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.212
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.608
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.117
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.346
And I free up some memory 1.075
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.088
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.041
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 8.275
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.513
And all tps features are active 1.467
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.632
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.183
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.684
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.962
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
13.060
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 7.673
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.483
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.519
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.680
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 8.109
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.522
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.868
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.908
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 7.505
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.974
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.175
When I write some files expected to persist 1.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.772
# 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" 12.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:11.873
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 7.170
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 39.603
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.498
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.564
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.358
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.355
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
39.952
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.689
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.063
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.361
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:50.404
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 8.940
When I enable persistence 13.337
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.462
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.696
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.348
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.234
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.555
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.326
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
When I cold reboot the computer 10.221
And the computer reboots Tails 37.352
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.341
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.214
Given I enable persistence 8.516
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.098
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.231
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.172
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:10.508
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 enabled and logged in 8.686
# 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 29.468
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.153
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.300
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
39.772
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 8.321
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.639
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.929
And all notifications have disappeared 8.615
When I delete the persistent partition 2.774
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.519
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 7.465
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.125
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.547
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
40.393
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 8.136
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.009
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.258
And all notifications have disappeared 8.385
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.254
And all tps features are enabled 1.099
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.674
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 29.903
And I enable persistence 20.019
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.675
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.587
And persistence is enabled 1.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.475
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 7.048
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.799
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.295
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 8.191
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.148
When I enable persistence 5.825
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.058
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 7.565
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.244
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.899
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.642
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.200
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.700
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 7.569
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.124
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.186
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.667
And all notifications have disappeared 9.269
# 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" 0.197
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.098
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.188
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.246
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.189
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 7.352
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.854
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.388
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.833
When I log in to a new session 10.350
And all notifications have disappeared 9.185
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.231
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000