Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4412 23 May 2026, 11:02

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 19:53.853 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.225
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.776
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.442
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.239
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.371
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.432
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.577
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.240
And persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.124
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 21.153
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.356
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.093
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.077
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.064
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.202
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
27.923
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.471
And the system is very low on memory 3.611
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.191
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.416
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.112
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.335
And I free up some memory 0.891
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.850
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.781
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.952
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
And all tps features are active 1.137
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.912
When I disable the first tps feature 2.474
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.225
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.503
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
12.633
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.278
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 2.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.098
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.104
When I enable the first tps feature 2.414
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.745
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.147
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.529
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.896
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.396
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.035
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.039
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.183
When I write some files expected to persist 1.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.318
# 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" 11.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.554
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6.949
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.551
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.276
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.144
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.901
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.387
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.055
Tags: @product
37.633
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.147
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.265
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:40.588
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.305
When I enable persistence 12.586
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.605
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.114
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.369
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.244
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.530
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.222
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
When I cold reboot the computer 8.622
And the computer reboots Tails 34.281
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.270
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.208
Given I enable persistence 6.876
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.203
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.726
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
2:3.631
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.984
# 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 27.975
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.281
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.068
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
38.662
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.215
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.136
Then persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.539
And all notifications have disappeared 7.735
When I delete the persistent partition 2.624
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.106
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.328
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.101
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.359
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.097
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
41.278
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.790
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.053
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.175
And all notifications have disappeared 7.711
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.237
And all tps features are enabled 1.031
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.790
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 30.029
And I enable persistence 19.465
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.314
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.560
And persistence is enabled 1.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.226
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 6.999
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.595
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.999
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.279
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.250
When I enable persistence 6.680
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.347
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.689
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.317
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.532
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.271
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.147
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.103
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.263
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.615
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 9.980
And all notifications have disappeared 9.034
# 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" 0.329
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.092
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.291
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.260
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.727
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.321
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.458
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.352
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.894
When I log in to a new session 10.399
And all notifications have disappeared 8.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.290
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000