Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6371 12 May 2026, 13:27

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 23:40.375 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:40.417
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:25.924
And I update APT using apt 7.158
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.360
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
32.018
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 8.873
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.239
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
And persistence is disabled 0.144
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.346
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.206
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.258
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.480
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.230
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.482
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.221
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
31.931
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.261
And the system is very low on memory 4.014
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.196
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.720
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 2.461
And I free up some memory 0.932
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.660
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.943
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 9.100
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.375
And all tps features are active 1.305
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.304
When I disable the first tps feature 3.252
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.255
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.163
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.975
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.019
Tags: @product
14.572
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.806
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 3.671
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.077
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.598
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.538
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 7.838
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.585
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.924
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
52.730
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 7.861
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 20.209
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.402
When I write some files expected to persist 1.580
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.598
# 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" 13.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
2:34.296
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 7.819
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 17.898
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.625
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.777
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 22.369
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.404
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.064
Tags: @product
43.736
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.690
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.074
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.451
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
3:0.145
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 9.502
When I enable persistence 14.331
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.108
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.028
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.302
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.558
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.769
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.219
When I cold reboot the computer 9.391
And the computer reboots Tails 41.165
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.301
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
Given I enable persistence 8.652
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.106
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.234
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.856
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.010
Tags: @product
2:24.886
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 9.337
# 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 27.377
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.055
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.364
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 27.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
44.032
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 9.334
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.997
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.226
And all notifications have disappeared 8.632
When I delete the persistent partition 3.396
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.690
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 9.027
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.087
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.026
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.288
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
47.446
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 8.692
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.729
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.479
And all notifications have disappeared 8.126
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.871
And all tps features are enabled 1.702
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:11.150
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 32.878
And I enable persistence 22.651
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.841
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.750
And persistence is enabled 2.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.798
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.374
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.672
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
29.180
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 9.079
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.052
When I enable persistence 8.077
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
33.638
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 8.843
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.461
When I try to enable persistence 1.255
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.158
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.314
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.108
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.608
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.219
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.023
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.583
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.132
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 12.449
And all notifications have disappeared 10.013
# 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" 0.321
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.445
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.191
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.497
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.848
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 8.864
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.597
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.409
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.116
When I log in to a new session 12.248
And all notifications have disappeared 10.004
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.403
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000