Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6070 15 Jan 2026, 17:18

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 21:22.976 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:4.282
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:49.933
And I update APT using apt 7.151
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.400
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.540
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 8.891
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.939
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.238
And persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.195
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 9.156
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.346
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.230
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.490
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.721
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.890
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.201
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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28.774
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 7.952
And the system is very low on memory 3.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.162
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.078
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.090
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.471
And I free up some memory 0.923
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.966
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.875
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 8.439
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.362
And all tps features are active 1.491
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.167
When I disable the first tps feature 3.045
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.563
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.293
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
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13.882
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 8.085
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I disable the first tps feature 2.798
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.587
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.078
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 7.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.531
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.864
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.282
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 7.541
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 11.714
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.251
When I write some files expected to persist 1.262
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.874
# 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" 12.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:44.230
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 7.667
And the network is plugged 0.012
And Tor is ready 9.745
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.204
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.800
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.343
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 11.825
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.421
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
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41.357
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.549
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.083
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.608
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.117
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 8.932
When I enable persistence 14.292
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.622
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.862
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.422
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.290
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.601
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.438
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
When I cold reboot the computer 6.364
And the computer reboots Tails 36.660
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.327
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.167
Given I enable persistence 8.478
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.215
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.046
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:7.528
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 8.247
# 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 26.994
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.066
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.386
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
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38.449
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 8.346
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.534
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.901
And all notifications have disappeared 8.265
When I delete the persistent partition 2.861
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.919
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 7.721
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.527
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.359
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
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42.513
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.905
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.309
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.491
And all notifications have disappeared 8.095
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.283
And all tps features are enabled 1.050
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.548
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 33.615
And I enable persistence 21.404
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.983
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.569
And persistence is enabled 1.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.218
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.480
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.145
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.942
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 8.704
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.473
When I enable persistence 7.030
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.533
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 7.993
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.966
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.278
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.479
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.239
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.014
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 8.206
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.023
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.669
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.528
And all notifications have disappeared 9.380
# 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" 0.182
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.275
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.282
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.391
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.689
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 7.580
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.489
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.432
When I try to enable persistence 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.253
When I log in to a new session 11.381
And all notifications have disappeared 9.603
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.884
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000