Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4235 17 Feb 2026, 12:00

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 23:46.591 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.859
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 1:23.061
And I update APT using apt 8.452
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.288
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.226
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 9.475
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.193
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 23.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.737
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 9.047
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.413
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 32.956
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.469
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.852
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.660
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.176
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product
37.202
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 7.835
And the system is very low on memory 10.488
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.098
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.862
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.359
And I free up some memory 0.854
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.557
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.284
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 8.649
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
And all tps features are active 1.495
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.435
When I disable the first tps feature 2.687
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.360
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.314
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.807
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
13.807
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 8.055
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.703
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.609
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.675
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 7.239
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 3.143
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.002
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.187
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 7.432
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.418
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.226
When I write some files expected to persist 1.404
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.537
# 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" 13.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.963
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 7.368
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.236
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.027
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.825
And I capture all network traffic 0.011
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 11.723
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.407
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
1:1.906
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 9.220
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.134
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.470
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 37.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:59.487
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.117
When I enable persistence 19.257
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.501
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.014
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.366
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.260
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.580
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.862
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.120
When I cold reboot the computer 10.770
And the computer reboots Tails 37.293
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.403
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.259
Given I enable persistence 7.713
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.094
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.310
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.366
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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2:47.017
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.839
# 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 48.400
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.812
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.953
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
45.934
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 7.950
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.841
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.058
And all notifications have disappeared 8.965
When I delete the persistent partition 2.665
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.976
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.816
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.180
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.642
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.052
Tags: @product
45.923
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 7.843
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.212
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.312
And all notifications have disappeared 8.402
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.267
And all tps features are enabled 1.395
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.444
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
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 36.133
And I enable persistence 20.428
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.535
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.611
And persistence is enabled 1.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.212
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 7.487
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.116
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.579
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 8.270
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.274
When I enable persistence 7.023
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.893
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 7.826
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.782
When I try to enable persistence 1.333
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.948
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.482
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.198
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.890
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 7.808
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.882
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.088
When I log in to a new session 11.903
And all notifications have disappeared 9.392
# 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" 0.282
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.608
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.196
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.392
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.381
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 8.030
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.949
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.380
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.093
When I log in to a new session 10.944
And all notifications have disappeared 9.281
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.677
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000