Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6059 14 Jan 2026, 07:52

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 20:29.642 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.949
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.698
And I update APT using apt 6.071
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.295
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.400
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 8.392
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.211
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.582
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 logged in 9.149
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.333
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.540
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.493
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.534
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.194
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.178
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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29.590
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.509
And the system is very low on memory 3.134
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.219
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.755
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.084
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.494
And I free up some memory 0.851
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.017
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.581
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.350
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
And all tps features are active 1.293
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.042
When I disable the first tps feature 2.769
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.357
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.816
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.477
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
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13.732
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 7.787
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 3.024
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.508
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.045
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 7.285
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.103
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I disable the first tps feature 2.478
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.035
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.757
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 7.586
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.048
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.165
When I write some files expected to persist 1.306
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.482
# 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" 12.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.151
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 7.572
And the network is plugged 0.012
And Tor is ready 10.410
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.513
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.782
And I capture all network traffic 0.020
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 42.086
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.388
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.097
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
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40.195
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.942
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.792
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:45.055
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 9.337
When I enable persistence 13.106
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.427
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.685
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.274
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.205
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.511
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.286
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.205
When I cold reboot the computer 10.376
And the computer reboots Tails 33.974
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.321
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.205
Given I enable persistence 5.858
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.239
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.808
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:5.641
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.058
# 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 27.586
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.063
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.996
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
36.791
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.844
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.377
Then persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.783
And all notifications have disappeared 8.497
When I delete the persistent partition 2.779
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.837
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 7.388
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.367
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.799
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
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39.154
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 8.021
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.388
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.053
And all notifications have disappeared 8.062
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.322
And all tps features are enabled 1.136
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.089
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.260
And I enable persistence 17.804
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.944
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.643
And persistence is enabled 1.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.962
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.010
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.449
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.841
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 8.065
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.441
When I enable persistence 5.785
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.026
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 7.836
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.383
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.022
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.296
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.208
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.402
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 7.700
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.137
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.329
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.587
And all notifications have disappeared 9.284
# 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" 0.139
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.437
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.446
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.854
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 7.863
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.249
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.339
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.035
When I log in to a new session 10.061
And all notifications have disappeared 7.966
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.276
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000