Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_doc-rm-7.12 1 02 Sep 2026, 22:14

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 23:41.784 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.599
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 1:21.051
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.561
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.244
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.061
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 8.748
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.964
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.242
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.240
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.889
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.645
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.437
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.245
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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29.985
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.202
And the system is very low on memory 5.028
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.250
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.657
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.132
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.476
And I free up some memory 0.475
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.716
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:51.600
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 8.564
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
And all tps features are active 8.446
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.842
When I disable the first tps feature 2.505
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.438
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.681
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.067
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.910
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 8.374
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I disable the first tps feature 2.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.075
When I enable the first tps feature 2.622
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.577
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 enabled and logged in 8.135
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.454
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.835
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.046
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 7.996
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 10.134
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.432
When I write some files expected to persist 1.308
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.431
# 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" 11.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.315
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.186
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 10.349
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.111
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.686
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.168
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 11.076
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.357
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.052
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41.703
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.634
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.115
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.027
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:59.415
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 8.322
When I enable persistence 23.738
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.612
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.701
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.433
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.344
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.478
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.619
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
When I cold reboot the computer 8.601
And the computer reboots Tails 34.095
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.470
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.219
Given I enable persistence 14.150
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.060
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.364
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.920
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
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2:11.666
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 7.975
# 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 30.424
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.406
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.102
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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40.586
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 8.594
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.912
Then persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.117
And all notifications have disappeared 8.984
When I delete the persistent partition 2.629
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.421
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 enabled and logged in 8.069
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.363
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.726
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
58.949
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 8.355
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.195
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.038
And all notifications have disappeared 8.509
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.332
And all tps features are enabled 8.334
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:42.165
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 1:56.811
And I enable persistence 28.027
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.118
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.621
And persistence is enabled 8.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.654
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.523
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.545
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.622
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 9.085
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.263
When I enable persistence 13.127
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.992
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 8.191
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.989
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.101
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.458
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.077
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.275
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.456
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 8.006
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.926
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.112
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 8.775
And all notifications have disappeared 9.651
# 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" 0.153
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.363
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.256
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.176
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.813
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 8.022
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.874
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.302
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.703
When I log in to a new session 8.853
And all notifications have disappeared 6.830
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.097
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000