Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_release-process-7.7.3 3 11 May 2026, 18:08

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 22:44.005 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.623
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.487
And I update APT using apt 6.714
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.297
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.802
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 9.130
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.311
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.369
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.388
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.367
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.089
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.548
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.636
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.997
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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30.896
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.023
And the system is very low on memory 3.620
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.226
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.055
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.130
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.531
And I free up some memory 1.047
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.794
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.492
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 9.038
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
And all tps features are active 1.239
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.616
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.423
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.579
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.489
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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14.057
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.013
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I disable the first tps feature 3.059
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 2.462
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.715
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 7.640
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.112
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.121
And I disable the first tps feature 2.830
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.968
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.297
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 7.481
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 18.021
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.456
When I write some files expected to persist 1.298
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.972
# 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" 13.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:29.409
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 7.756
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 18.843
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.191
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.181
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.470
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.521
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.090
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
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43.311
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 8.993
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 15.601
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.436
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 8.927
When I enable persistence 14.245
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.125
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.130
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.347
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.267
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.603
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.426
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
When I cold reboot the computer 6.425
And the computer reboots Tails 39.090
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.345
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.215
Given I enable persistence 8.233
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.087
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.221
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.428
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:20.133
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 8.822
# 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 30.313
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.250
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.587
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
Tags: @product
40.215
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 8.588
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.838
Then persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.472
And all notifications have disappeared 8.312
When I delete the persistent partition 3.435
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.636
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 7.801
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.702
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.814
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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42.854
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 7.996
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.818
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.089
And all notifications have disappeared 8.027
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.318
And all tps features are enabled 1.063
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.583
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 32.659
And I enable persistence 21.926
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.560
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.566
And persistence is enabled 1.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.624
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.470
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.531
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.085
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 8.718
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.814
When I enable persistence 6.757
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.171
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 8.130
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.155
When I try to enable persistence 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.493
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.482
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.174
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.050
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 7.886
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.738
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.684
And all notifications have disappeared 9.908
# 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" 0.247
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.566
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.260
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.415
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.235
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 8.321
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.607
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.720
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.006
When I log in to a new session 11.548
And all notifications have disappeared 8.538
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.407
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000