Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4219 09 Feb 2026, 11:47

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 21:18.916 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.014
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 1:19.452
And I update APT using apt 6.406
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.262
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.355
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 8.662
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.335
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.243
And persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.434
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 8.956
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.350
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.533
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.457
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.397
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.414
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.175
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
30.004
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 7.977
And the system is very low on memory 3.092
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.258
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.520
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.084
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.489
And I free up some memory 0.806
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.352
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.988
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 8.980
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.386
And all tps features are active 1.224
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.227
When I disable the first tps feature 3.026
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.090
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.915
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.833
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.388
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 7.943
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.535
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.494
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.295
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 7.687
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.503
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.910
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.957
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 7.176
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 39.533
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.176
When I write some files expected to persist 1.582
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.191
# 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" 12.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.166
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 7.761
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 9.778
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.487
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.946
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.503
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.311
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.075
Tags: @product
39.976
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.851
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.070
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.852
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.828
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 8.961
When I enable persistence 14.253
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.416
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.254
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.324
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.264
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.563
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.083
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 10.360
And the computer reboots Tails 36.793
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.469
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.232
Given I enable persistence 7.673
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.295
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.498
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:10.207
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 8.622
# 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 26.450
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.535
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.118
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
38.953
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 8.040
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.888
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.955
And all notifications have disappeared 8.684
When I delete the persistent partition 2.868
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.695
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 7.809
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.598
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.993
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
43.195
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 8.043
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.526
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.360
And all notifications have disappeared 8.376
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.260
And all tps features are enabled 1.133
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.876
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 32.194
And I enable persistence 21.973
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.373
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.543
And persistence is enabled 1.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.755
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.441
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.765
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.887
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 8.422
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.551
When I enable persistence 6.939
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.047
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 8.548
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.943
When I try to enable persistence 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.937
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.680
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.602
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 7.857
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.661
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.685
And all notifications have disappeared 9.522
# 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" 0.279
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.575
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.248
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.456
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.285
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 7.728
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.416
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.390
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.692
When I log in to a new session 11.671
And all notifications have disappeared 8.803
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.345
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000