Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4238 17 Feb 2026, 15:06

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 22:22.969 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.354
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 1:21.746
And I update APT using apt 7.378
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.345
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.592
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 9.561
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.760
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.830
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 9.234
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.388
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.970
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.550
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.967
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.400
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
32.314
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 8.227
And the system is very low on memory 3.407
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.273
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.108
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.108
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.424
And I free up some memory 0.821
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.422
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.712
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 8.813
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.346
And all tps features are active 1.549
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.813
When I disable the first tps feature 3.065
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.524
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.776
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.573
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
13.153
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 7.635
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.547
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.145
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.854
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 8.121
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.645
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.882
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.616
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 7.632
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 10.739
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.241
When I write some files expected to persist 1.388
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.959
# 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" 12.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.993
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 9.181
And the network is plugged 0.087
And Tor is ready 10.360
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.413
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.571
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.577
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.427
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
43.485
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 8.651
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.199
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.037
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.644
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 9.272
When I enable persistence 14.193
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.520
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.217
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.326
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.220
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.491
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.733
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.213
When I cold reboot the computer 10.628
And the computer reboots Tails 40.907
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.373
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.274
Given I enable persistence 9.119
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.287
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.593
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
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2:38.356
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 8.331
# 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 35.410
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.940
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:21.385
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
40.469
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 8.195
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.806
Then persistence is disabled 0.145
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.866
And all notifications have disappeared 8.388
When I delete the persistent partition 2.690
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.831
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 8.108
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.087
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.691
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.697
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
46.456
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 8.350
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.724
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.771
And all notifications have disappeared 8.700
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.851
And all tps features are enabled 1.610
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:8.340
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 33.096
And I enable persistence 22.461
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.828
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.910
And persistence is enabled 2.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.076
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 7.868
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.363
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.328
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 7.848
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.295
When I enable persistence 7.239
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.339
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 8.185
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.961
When I try to enable persistence 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.563
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.644
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.244
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.201
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 8.454
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.181
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I log in to a new session 12.131
And all notifications have disappeared 11.694
# 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" 0.159
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.513
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.261
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.328
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.014
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 8.068
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.098
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.698
When I log in to a new session 12.325
And all notifications have disappeared 8.815
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.512
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000