Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6718 02 Oct 2026, 11:32

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 23:22.396 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
2:0.629
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.702
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.454
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.587
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.161
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.437
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.699
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.212
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.952
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.910
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.363
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.000
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.407
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.915
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.168
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
Tags: @product
29.387
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.318
And the system is very low on memory 4.165
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.248
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.285
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.091
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.398
And I free up some memory 0.422
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.412
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.174
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.379
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.356
And all tps features are active 10.377
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.811
When I disable the first tps feature 2.481
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.599
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.752
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.850
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
13.513
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.024
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I disable the first tps feature 2.559
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.437
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.711
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.114
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 2.593
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.897
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.132
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.581
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 11.441
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.627
When I write some files expected to persist 0.933
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.521
# 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? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 11.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.263
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.615
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 13.036
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.230
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.553
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 12.145
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.335
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.126
Tags: @product
36.139
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.506
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.621
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 13.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:50.142
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.360
When I enable persistence 21.783
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.638
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.304
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.372
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" 4.537
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.675
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
When I cold reboot the computer 6.107
And the computer reboots Tails 32.634
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.419
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.328
Given I enable persistence 14.028
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.054
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.143
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.184
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
Tags: @product
2:6.281
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.357
# 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 26.816
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.287
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.451
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
37.231
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.953
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.118
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.204
And all notifications have disappeared 7.872
When I delete the persistent partition 2.689
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.862
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.002
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.305
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.279
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
56.650
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.019
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.175
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.009
And all notifications have disappeared 8.349
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.295
And all tps features are enabled 7.532
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:40.460
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 1:57.161
And I enable persistence 27.647
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.109
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.510
And persistence is enabled 8.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.949
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.556
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.895
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.774
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.403
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.128
When I enable persistence 13.103
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.383
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.919
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.677
When I try to enable persistence 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.894
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.123
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.187
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.381
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.424
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.083
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.421
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 8.629
And all notifications have disappeared 7.254
# 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" 0.233
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.141
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.283
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.099
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.444
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.963
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.839
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.302
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.350
When I log in to a new session 7.812
And all notifications have disappeared 7.952
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.241
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000