Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4227 11 Feb 2026, 12:15

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 24:38.248 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.532
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 1:24.514
And I update APT using apt 8.355
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.554
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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50.016
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 8.875
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.985
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 23.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:2.717
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 9.675
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.599
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.318
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 35.183
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.567
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.040
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.030
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.220
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
42.174
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 7.524
And the system is very low on memory 15.014
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.258
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.799
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.343
And I free up some memory 0.848
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.893
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.980
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 8.692
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.325
And all tps features are active 1.241
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.452
When I disable the first tps feature 3.154
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.331
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.618
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.853
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
13.046
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 7.488
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.542
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.641
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.505
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.697
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 2.675
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.947
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.766
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 7.329
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.489
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.203
When I write some files expected to persist 1.202
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.043
# 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" 12.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:13.764
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 7.518
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 40.390
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.023
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.162
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.925
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.399
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
Tags: @product
55.927
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.998
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.121
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.111
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 29.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:7.059
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 9.101
When I enable persistence 26.022
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.093
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.979
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.306
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.280
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.548
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.367
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
When I cold reboot the computer 10.196
And the computer reboots Tails 39.394
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.295
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
Given I enable persistence 8.397
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.251
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.209
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
2:22.850
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 7.787
# 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 39.657
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.097
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.924
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
48.930
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 8.106
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.981
Then persistence is disabled 0.141
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.422
And all notifications have disappeared 9.345
When I delete the persistent partition 2.607
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.005
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 7.848
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.083
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.187
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.653
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
51.314
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 7.684
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.039
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.011
And all notifications have disappeared 8.346
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.275
And all tps features are enabled 1.410
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.078
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 34.474
And I enable persistence 29.523
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.519
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.696
And persistence is enabled 1.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.866
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 7.467
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.816
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.729
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 7.778
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 15.697
When I enable persistence 7.181
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.839
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 7.863
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.531
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.406
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.291
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.198
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.437
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 7.594
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.859
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 11.546
And all notifications have disappeared 10.439
# 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" 0.347
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.576
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.178
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.441
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.703
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 7.630
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.905
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.328
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.092
When I log in to a new session 12.119
And all notifications have disappeared 8.961
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.534
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000