Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4222 10 Feb 2026, 04:07

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 25:44.890 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.955
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 1:26.299
And I update APT using apt 7.494
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.255
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.294
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 9.473
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.702
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 24.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:37.618
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 9.146
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.821
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 1:0.904
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.451
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.980
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.967
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.184
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
Tags: @product
37.377
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 7.908
And the system is very low on memory 9.737
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.410
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.795
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.109
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.403
And I free up some memory 0.835
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.642
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.736
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 8.353
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.633
And all tps features are active 1.500
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.037
When I disable the first tps feature 3.193
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.796
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.830
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
Tags: @product
13.214
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 7.711
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I disable the first tps feature 2.528
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.555
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.621
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 7.787
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 2.745
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.905
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.536
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.560
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.249
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.232
When I write some files expected to persist 1.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.462
# 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" 12.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.938
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 7.673
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 10.654
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.223
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.479
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.818
And I capture all network traffic 0.022
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 12.468
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.337
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.090
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
1:2.136
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 8.658
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.115
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.932
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 38.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:19.758
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 9.953
When I enable persistence 35.131
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.876
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.066
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.278
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.244
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.546
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.759
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
When I cold reboot the computer 10.237
And the computer reboots Tails 39.601
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.277
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.215
Given I enable persistence 8.198
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.358
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.630
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:36.467
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 8.661
# 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 42.201
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.264
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.723
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
49.981
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 8.253
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.288
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.232
And all notifications have disappeared 9.055
When I delete the persistent partition 2.725
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.656
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 7.914
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.222
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.241
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
55.558
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 8.294
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.879
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.641
And all notifications have disappeared 8.686
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.317
And all tps features are enabled 1.311
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.039
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 43.332
And I enable persistence 25.239
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.264
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.554
And persistence is enabled 1.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.235
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 7.332
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.366
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.812
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 8.896
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.098
When I enable persistence 6.881
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.864
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 8.573
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.927
When I try to enable persistence 1.318
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.462
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.253
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.187
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.397
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 7.774
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.108
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.746
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.299
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 13.053
And all notifications have disappeared 10.047
# 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" 0.183
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.533
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.291
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.317
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.688
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 7.806
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.647
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.310
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.021
When I log in to a new session 13.011
And all notifications have disappeared 8.203
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.581
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000