Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_disclose-security-issues-post-release 2 27 May 2026, 18:38

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 20:36.417 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.317
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.402
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.818
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.308
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.110
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 8.743
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.110
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.245
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.493
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 logged in 8.490
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.855
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.720
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.653
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.244
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
28.242
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 7.289
And the system is very low on memory 4.016
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.165
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.358
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.087
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.391
And I free up some memory 0.933
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.919
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.084
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 8.298
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.364
And all tps features are active 1.296
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.263
When I disable the first tps feature 2.507
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.999
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.967
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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13.221
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 7.661
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 2.633
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.529
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.969
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 7.413
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.568
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.811
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
42.581
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 7.314
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 12.069
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.260
When I write some files expected to persist 1.257
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.741
# 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" 11.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:44.161
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 enabled and logged in 7.722
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.037
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.010
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.706
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.874
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.420
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.100
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.054
Tags: @product
41.466
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 8.579
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.799
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:54.878
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 8.670
When I enable persistence 13.633
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.922
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.608
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.362
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.703
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.471
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
When I cold reboot the computer 10.605
And the computer reboots Tails 37.838
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.399
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.208
Given I enable persistence 7.325
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.091
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.206
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.195
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.031
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2:2.886
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 7.890
# 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 23.553
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.488
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.895
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
37.131
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 7.740
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.801
Then persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.516
And all notifications have disappeared 7.828
When I delete the persistent partition 2.728
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:21.509
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 7.557
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.519
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.142
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
42.094
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 7.637
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.816
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.825
And all notifications have disappeared 7.825
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.384
And all tps features are enabled 1.181
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:1.775
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 29.412
And I enable persistence 18.797
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.265
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.557
And persistence is enabled 1.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.581
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 7.064
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.976
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.726
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 7.947
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.699
When I enable persistence 6.230
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.096
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.814
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 8.239
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.343
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.001
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.561
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.164
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.203
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 7.541
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.865
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.273
And all notifications have disappeared 9.377
# 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" 0.213
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.103
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.283
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.381
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.167
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 7.554
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.795
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.359
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.936
When I log in to a new session 11.554
And all notifications have disappeared 8.796
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.272
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000