Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6463 18 Jun 2026, 16:21

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 22:37.809 Passed
Tags: @product
Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
Tags: @product
1:37.198
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.767
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.191
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.290
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.942
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.279
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.134
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.370
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.095
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.723
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.412
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.482
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.099
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.962
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.185
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
Tags: @product
29.228
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.171
And the system is very low on memory 3.403
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.435
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.096
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.353
And I free up some memory 0.855
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.693
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.044
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.953
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
And all tps features are active 5.735
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.958
When I disable the first tps feature 2.589
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.262
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.773
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.092
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.074
Tags: @product
14.042
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.089
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.611
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.093
When I disable the first tps feature 2.543
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.409
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.575
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.819
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.621
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.957
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.327
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.585
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 13.721
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.020
When I write some files expected to persist 1.187
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.020
# 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" 12.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.926
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.853
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.035
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.177
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.986
And I capture all network traffic 0.022
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.997
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.499
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.076
Tags: @product
42.660
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.189
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.067
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:57.831
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.827
When I enable persistence 17.833
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.794
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.659
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.347
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.595
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 0.134
When I cold reboot the computer 9.806
And the computer reboots Tails 37.797
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.237
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.198
Given I enable persistence 11.950
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.217
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.699
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
2:17.347
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.038
# 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 25.694
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.851
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.719
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
Tags: @product
39.273
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.166
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.734
Then persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.997
And all notifications have disappeared 8.073
When I delete the persistent partition 2.826
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.187
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.248
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.485
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.084
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
Tags: @product
52.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.934
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.701
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.920
And all notifications have disappeared 7.619
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.274
And all tps features are enabled 5.963
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:13.558
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
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 30.652
And I enable persistence 25.413
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.585
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.614
And persistence is enabled 6.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.943
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.022
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 7.626
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.818
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.191
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.019
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.213
When I enable persistence 11.107
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.326
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.493
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.365
When I try to enable persistence 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.824
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.474
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.143
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.230
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.646
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.765
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.957
And all notifications have disappeared 9.741
# 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" 0.224
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.548
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.232
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.734
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.026
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.036
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.793
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.487
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.409
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.841
When I log in to a new session 11.643
And all notifications have disappeared 10.101
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.869
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000