Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4224 10 Feb 2026, 11:18

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 19:59.387 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.257
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 1:16.642
And I update APT using apt 5.442
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.276
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.407
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 8.470
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.648
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.234
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.049
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 8.524
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.429
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.256
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.424
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.774
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.305
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
27.932
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.478
And the system is very low on memory 3.140
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.246
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.563
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.361
And I free up some memory 0.781
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.205
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.942
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 8.060
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
And all tps features are active 1.160
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.885
When I disable the first tps feature 2.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.012
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.266
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.586
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
Tags: @product
12.714
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 7.429
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 2.462
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.411
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.620
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 7.102
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.045
And I disable the first tps feature 2.543
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.808
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.711
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 7.131
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.050
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.183
When I write some files expected to persist 1.187
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.214
# 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" 11.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.834
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 7.232
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.812
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.361
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.902
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.736
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.395
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
39.979
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 8.548
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.110
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.618
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:44.512
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 8.507
When I enable persistence 12.378
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.319
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.572
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.376
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.526
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.971
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.278
When I cold reboot the computer 10.119
And the computer reboots Tails 35.611
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.293
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.206
Given I enable persistence 6.996
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.108
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.227
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.626
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:3.676
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 8.119
# 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 27.443
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.062
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.259
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
36.722
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 7.754
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.864
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.817
And all notifications have disappeared 8.136
When I delete the persistent partition 2.666
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.584
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 7.603
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.268
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.420
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
41.841
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 7.875
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.678
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.545
And all notifications have disappeared 8.543
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.328
And all tps features are enabled 1.512
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.093
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 31.273
And I enable persistence 20.199
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.376
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.640
And persistence is enabled 1.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.293
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
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 7.022
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.611
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.614
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 8.151
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.517
When I enable persistence 6.896
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.116
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 7.712
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.444
When I try to enable persistence 1.328
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.421
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.547
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.241
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.243
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 7.592
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.335
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 10.996
And all notifications have disappeared 9.525
# 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" 0.230
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.542
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.244
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.391
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.238
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 7.365
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.730
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.333
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.656
When I log in to a new session 9.669
And all notifications have disappeared 9.205
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.316
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000