Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4242 19 Feb 2026, 12:05

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 25:15.481 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.287
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 1:23.633
And I update APT using apt 6.188
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.321
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
46.744
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 9.489
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.312
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
And persistence is disabled 0.145
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 20.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:2.117
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 9.461
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.100
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.187
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.228
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.529
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.471
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.890
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.187
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
39.625
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 7.993
And the system is very low on memory 12.590
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.649
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.299
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.129
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.451
And I free up some memory 0.961
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.483
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.791
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 9.407
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.612
And all tps features are active 1.306
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.208
When I disable the first tps feature 3.179
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.260
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.615
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.977
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
13.504
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.735
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.102
When I disable the first tps feature 2.793
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.495
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.737
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.663
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.753
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.126
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.741
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 8.178
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 42.288
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.213
When I write some files expected to persist 1.395
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.952
# 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" 13.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:30.731
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 7.933
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 18.607
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.678
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.411
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.218
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.515
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
Tags: @product
53.041
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 9.817
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.090
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.247
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:13.836
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 9.410
When I enable persistence 28.281
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.395
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.126
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.394
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.278
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.611
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.972
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.263
When I cold reboot the computer 10.951
And the computer reboots Tails 40.017
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.275
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.307
Given I enable persistence 7.455
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.240
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.626
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:16.831
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 8.467
# 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 33.592
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.406
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.865
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
45.616
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 7.979
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.506
Then persistence is disabled 0.147
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.405
And all notifications have disappeared 9.438
When I delete the persistent partition 2.747
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.728
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 7.352
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.821
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.187
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
54.426
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 7.749
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.059
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.373
And all notifications have disappeared 8.824
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.354
And all tps features are enabled 1.547
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:14.889
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 34.999
And I enable persistence 24.944
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.976
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.705
And persistence is enabled 2.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.864
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 7.517
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.749
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.361
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 8.748
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.464
When I enable persistence 7.065
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.860
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 8.072
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.025
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.588
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.433
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.154
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.464
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 8.139
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.686
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.036
When I log in to a new session 12.123
And all notifications have disappeared 10.211
# 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" 0.204
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.803
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.285
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.474
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.277
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 7.732
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.392
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.353
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.174
When I log in to a new session 12.694
And all notifications have disappeared 10.142
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.455
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000