Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6108 30 Jan 2026, 14:44

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 26:12.945 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:42.126
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 1:24.028
And I update APT using apt 10.054
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.810
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.940
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 9.388
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.369
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
And persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 18.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:14.915
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 logged in 23.034
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.455
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.779
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.553
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.205
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.526
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.228
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
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41.271
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 8.324
And the system is very low on memory 11.305
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.630
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.053
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.107
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.378
And I free up some memory 1.149
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.804
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:53.208
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 21.943
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.280
And all tps features are active 1.166
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.927
When I disable the first tps feature 3.130
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.131
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 1:11.402
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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13.850
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 8.356
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.618
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.040
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 7.922
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 3.048
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.873
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.431
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 7.515
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 13.567
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.203
When I write some files expected to persist 1.282
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.082
# 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" 12.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:29.850
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 8.592
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.284
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.183
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.542
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.198
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 42.339
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.440
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.094
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
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59.297
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.938
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.135
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.456
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 32.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:12.418
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 9.387
When I enable persistence 30.516
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.361
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.024
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.370
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" 4.562
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.854
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.178
When I cold reboot the computer 8.489
And the computer reboots Tails 41.401
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.320
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
Given I enable persistence 7.544
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.259
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.247
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:34.135
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 8.738
# 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 46.922
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.585
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.427
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
56.629
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 9.377
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.530
Then persistence is disabled 0.134
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 18.101
And all notifications have disappeared 8.895
When I delete the persistent partition 3.231
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:47.075
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 9.242
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.675
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.717
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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51.603
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 8.438
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.145
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.762
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.989
And all notifications have disappeared 8.222
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.292
And all tps features are enabled 1.184
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.324
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 43.529
And I enable persistence 29.031
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.214
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.649
And persistence is enabled 1.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.684
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 7.129
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.982
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.132
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 8.505
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 18.520
When I enable persistence 7.399
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.542
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 7.648
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.716
When I try to enable persistence 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.561
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.620
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.077
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.214
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.651
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 7.748
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.597
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 13.502
And all notifications have disappeared 10.649
# 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" 0.244
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.443
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.403
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.614
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.812
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 7.973
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.917
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.350
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.544
When I log in to a new session 13.335
And all notifications have disappeared 9.466
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.858
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000