Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4422 30 May 2026, 11:09

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 19:54.926 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.608
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.037
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.391
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.262
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.159
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 8.341
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.486
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.226
And persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.520
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 logged in 8.412
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.285
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.144
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.925
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.065
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.422
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.175
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
27.430
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 logged in 7.125
And the system is very low on memory 3.763
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.172
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.465
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.502
And I free up some memory 0.785
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.449
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.517
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 8.255
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.266
And all tps features are active 1.165
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.729
When I disable the first tps feature 2.495
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.384
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.975
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
12.791
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 7.286
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.043
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.494
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.086
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.604
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.651
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 7.175
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.047
And I disable the first tps feature 2.491
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.807
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.461
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 7.201
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.875
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.194
When I write some files expected to persist 1.200
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.356
# 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" 11.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.982
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 7.213
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.557
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.423
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.013
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.069
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.057
Tags: @product
37.062
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.183
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.687
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
2:49.409
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 8.361
When I enable persistence 14.853
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.561
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.354
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.343
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.206
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.512
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.074
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
When I cold reboot the computer 10.489
And the computer reboots Tails 37.161
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.344
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.198
Given I enable persistence 7.191
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.224
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.179
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
2:9.329
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 8.566
# 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 28.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.432
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.672
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
38.139
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 8.070
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.710
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.507
And all notifications have disappeared 7.705
When I delete the persistent partition 2.692
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.885
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 7.428
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.523
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.646
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
39.244
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 7.680
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.000
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.178
And all notifications have disappeared 7.744
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.300
And all tps features are enabled 1.052
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.070
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 29.437
And I enable persistence 19.500
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.099
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.584
And persistence is enabled 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
21.996
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 6.938
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.563
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.864
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.001
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.820
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.531
When I enable persistence 5.793
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.092
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 7.375
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.417
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.329
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.427
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.158
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.539
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.428
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.364
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 10.525
And all notifications have disappeared 9.682
# 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" 0.366
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.418
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.191
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.368
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.169
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 7.353
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.625
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.318
When I try to enable persistence 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.923
When I log in to a new session 10.905
And all notifications have disappeared 8.739
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.296
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000