Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_devel 4498 17 Jul 2026, 11:29

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 21:39.657 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:30.743
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 1:16.724
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.897
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.252
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.144
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 8.236
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.951
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.234
And persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.595
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.161
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.507
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.120
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.144
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.167
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
28.684
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.138
And the system is very low on memory 4.574
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.171
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.741
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 2.354
And I free up some memory 0.767
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.779
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.470
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 7.893
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
And all tps features are active 5.005
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.967
When I disable the first tps feature 2.590
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.952
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.634
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.173
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
12.656
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 7.386
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.494
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.417
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.574
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 6.993
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.552
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.855
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.624
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 7.072
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 13.546
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.038
When I write some files expected to persist 1.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.538
# 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" 12.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.705
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 7.202
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.743
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.262
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.555
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.065
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.455
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.141
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
42.234
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.183
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.112
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.445
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:54.264
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 8.183
When I enable persistence 18.120
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.667
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.354
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.283
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.297
# 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 23.710
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
When I cold reboot the computer 10.170
And the computer reboots Tails 37.232
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.292
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.201
Given I enable persistence 10.770
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.239
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.884
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
2:13.984
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 8.019
# 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 31.722
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.306
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.193
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
38.853
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 7.557
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.703
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.440
And all notifications have disappeared 7.943
When I delete the persistent partition 2.719
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.630
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 7.524
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.260
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.562
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.078
Tags: @product
49.654
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 7.639
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.795
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.162
And all notifications have disappeared 7.743
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.310
And all tps features are enabled 4.991
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.442
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 31.608
And I enable persistence 25.217
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.390
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.578
And persistence is enabled 5.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.260
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 6.967
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.797
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.979
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.624
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.203
When I enable persistence 10.713
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.614
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 7.336
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.812
When I try to enable persistence 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.625
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.361
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.151
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.177
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 7.197
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.876
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.504
And all notifications have disappeared 9.148
# 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" 0.227
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.171
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.445
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.358
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:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.360
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 7.350
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.708
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.367
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.111
When I log in to a new session 9.967
And all notifications have disappeared 8.559
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.336
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000