Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6119 04 Feb 2026, 13:34

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 20:57.994 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:32.965
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 1:19.628
And I update APT using apt 6.134
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.279
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.090
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 9.001
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.905
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.606
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 logged in 9.166
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.379
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.552
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.441
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.599
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.064
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.257
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
28.539
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 logged in 7.809
And the system is very low on memory 3.223
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.236
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.964
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 2.442
And I free up some memory 0.848
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.816
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.011
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 8.630
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.327
And all tps features are active 1.308
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.093
When I disable the first tps feature 2.659
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.514
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.895
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.310
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
13.425
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 7.856
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.617
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.028
When I enable the first tps feature 2.541
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.431
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 7.731
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.562
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.969
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.043
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 7.664
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.277
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.160
When I write some files expected to persist 1.347
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.722
# 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" 12.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.135
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 8.423
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.600
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.744
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.774
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.789
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.443
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.103
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
41.244
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 8.752
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.089
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.275
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:53.003
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 8.578
When I enable persistence 15.156
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.621
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.909
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.359
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.397
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.552
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.415
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 10.334
And the computer reboots Tails 38.792
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.299
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.220
Given I enable persistence 7.000
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.225
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.736
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
2:12.578
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 enabled and logged in 8.394
# 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 31.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.759
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.523
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
40.534
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 9.055
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.868
Then persistence is disabled 0.167
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.960
And all notifications have disappeared 8.269
When I delete the persistent partition 2.764
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.550
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 enabled and logged in 8.252
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.571
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.352
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
Tags: @product
43.200
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 8.425
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.776
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.130
And all notifications have disappeared 8.471
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.408
And all tps features are enabled 1.516
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.464
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.905
And I enable persistence 19.994
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.284
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.601
And persistence is enabled 1.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.159
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.277
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.212
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.766
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 8.782
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.950
When I enable persistence 6.884
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.090
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.323
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 8.061
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.986
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.825
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.537
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.192
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.997
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 7.429
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.825
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 11.148
And all notifications have disappeared 9.834
# 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" 0.214
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.547
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.216
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.366
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.920
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 7.852
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.912
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.323
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.751
When I log in to a new session 10.996
And all notifications have disappeared 8.510
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.540
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000