Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6106 30 Jan 2026, 08:18

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 30:14.332 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:7.674
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:53.085
And I update APT using apt 7.206
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.262
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.013
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 14.020
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.380
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.363
And persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.539
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 14.501
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.340
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.106
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.675
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.584
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.477
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.597
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.194
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product
36.487
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 10.787
And the system is very low on memory 4.112
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.276
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.694
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.201
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.507
And I free up some memory 0.947
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.412
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.771
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 12.524
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.379
And all tps features are active 2.098
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.178
When I disable the first tps feature 2.799
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.949
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.562
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.014
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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15.574
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 9.408
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 3.152
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.077
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.549
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.183
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 12.166
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 2.674
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.129
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.546
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 9.491
And the network is plugged 0.100
And Tor is ready 13.481
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.617
When I write some files expected to persist 1.482
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.583
# 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" 17.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.632
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 9.528
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 10.726
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.645
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.790
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 12.992
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.442
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.063
Tags: @product
52.167
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 12.839
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 14.565
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:18.392
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 12.571
When I enable persistence 22.261
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.945
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.173
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.511
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.387
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.749
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.183
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
When I cold reboot the computer 10.219
And the computer reboots Tails 42.266
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.455
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.344
Given I enable persistence 11.220
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.093
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.342
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.364
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:43.707
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 12.786
# 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 31.961
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.304
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:30.222
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
50.186
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 11.906
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.378
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.724
And all notifications have disappeared 10.613
When I delete the persistent partition 3.034
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.900
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 10.948
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.065
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.532
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
56.806
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 10.717
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.130
When I try to enable persistence 1.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.512
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.301
And all notifications have disappeared 9.222
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.467
And all tps features are enabled 2.274
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:52.021
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 5:9.496
And I enable persistence 28.183
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.556
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.684
And persistence is enabled 2.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.608
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
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 9.224
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.702
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.875
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 11.303
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.396
When I enable persistence 10.789
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.668
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 9.680
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.668
When I try to enable persistence 1.347
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.191
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.905
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.202
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.687
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.050
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.041
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I log in to a new session 12.627
And all notifications have disappeared 10.192
# 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" 0.233
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.496
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.346
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.956
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.883
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.441
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.128
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.367
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.033
When I log in to a new session 11.916
And all notifications have disappeared 10.305
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.393
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000