Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6056 13 Jan 2026, 13:17

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 20:19.128 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.322
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:15.860
And I update APT using apt 5.340
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.225
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.510
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.708
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.062
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:37.669
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.708
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.327
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.908
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.492
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.599
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.302
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.177
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
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28.140
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.822
And the system is very low on memory 3.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.151
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.977
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.117
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.355
And I free up some memory 0.842
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.742
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:30.654
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 8.553
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 1.178
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.815
When I disable the first tps feature 2.563
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.233
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.758
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.139
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
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13.522
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 8.099
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.591
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.447
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.851
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 7.328
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.486
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.862
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.480
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 7.518
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 8.473
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.242
When I write some files expected to persist 1.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.519
# 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" 12.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.479
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 7.582
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.442
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.296
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.299
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 11.065
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.428
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.108
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.070
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38.373
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.678
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.071
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.757
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:45.214
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.828
When I enable persistence 13.176
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.256
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.298
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.336
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.270
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.516
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.535
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
When I cold reboot the computer 10.081
And the computer reboots Tails 35.411
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.351
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.203
Given I enable persistence 6.831
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.205
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.530
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:11.209
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 8.237
# 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 29.489
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.552
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.113
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
37.637
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.398
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.507
Then persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.218
And all notifications have disappeared 8.269
When I delete the persistent partition 2.684
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.457
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 7.959
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.424
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.772
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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41.652
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.243
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.401
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.199
And all notifications have disappeared 7.964
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.302
And all tps features are enabled 1.191
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.424
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 30.990
And I enable persistence 20.107
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.117
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.639
And persistence is enabled 1.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.881
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
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 7.199
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.167
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.294
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 8.482
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.416
When I enable persistence 6.611
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.089
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 8.343
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.455
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.029
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.467
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.085
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.274
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.034
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.608
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.563
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.652
And all notifications have disappeared 9.043
# 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" 0.162
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.095
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.175
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.287
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.228
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 7.547
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.428
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.361
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.019
When I log in to a new session 10.625
And all notifications have disappeared 9.485
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.801
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000