Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4232 15 Feb 2026, 11:55

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 24:48.550 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.808
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 1:24.474
And I update APT using apt 5.976
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.365
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.301
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 9.112
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.417
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.274
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 18.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:1.521
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 9.322
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.200
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.182
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 37.132
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.464
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.571
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.178
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
37.021
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 7.939
And the system is very low on memory 10.957
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.593
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.751
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.087
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.356
And I free up some memory 0.884
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.395
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.095
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 8.817
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.499
And all tps features are active 1.491
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.263
When I disable the first tps feature 2.729
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.838
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.062
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.144
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
13.406
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 7.720
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.601
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.083
When I enable the first tps feature 2.635
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.082
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 7.339
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.606
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.909
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.614
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 enabled and logged in 7.526
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 10.492
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.194
When I write some files expected to persist 1.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.450
# 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" 12.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.634
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 7.420
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 10.916
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.192
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.377
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.150
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.892
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.461
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.082
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.076
Tags: @product
51.549
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 8.869
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.130
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.447
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 27.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:12.441
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.422
When I enable persistence 33.244
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.440
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.785
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.325
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.271
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.610
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.827
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
When I cold reboot the computer 8.996
And the computer reboots Tails 39.158
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.311
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.284
Given I enable persistence 7.685
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.084
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.205
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.503
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:42.579
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 8.346
# 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 48.625
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.256
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.554
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
54.122
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 8.144
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.879
Then persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.898
And all notifications have disappeared 8.966
When I delete the persistent partition 2.766
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.293
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 7.782
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.096
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.715
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.491
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
48.179
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 7.863
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.416
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.991
And all notifications have disappeared 8.379
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.300
And all tps features are enabled 0.975
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.449
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 42.449
And I enable persistence 29.673
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.961
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.579
And persistence is enabled 1.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.865
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.630
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.596
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.022
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 8.028
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 19.411
When I enable persistence 6.771
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.904
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 7.838
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 22.301
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.368
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.541
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.265
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.747
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 7.740
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.995
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I log in to a new session 11.670
And all notifications have disappeared 9.344
# 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" 0.286
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.655
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.210
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.393
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:3.907
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 7.712
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 26.528
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.314
When I try to enable persistence 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.406
When I log in to a new session 13.025
And all notifications have disappeared 9.335
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.411
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000