Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6112 01 Feb 2026, 11:36

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 25:4.769 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.038
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 1:21.581
And I update APT using apt 7.917
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.363
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.346
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 8.695
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.518
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 20.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:5.339
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 9.458
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.391
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 39.304
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.532
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.319
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.968
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.177
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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37.630
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 8.001
And the system is very low on memory 10.735
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.372
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.835
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.352
And I free up some memory 0.880
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.284
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.696
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.901
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
And all tps features are active 1.142
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.983
When I disable the first tps feature 2.676
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.170
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.149
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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13.630
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 7.615
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.188
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.559
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.934
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.190
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 7.699
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.519
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.803
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:14.596
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 7.776
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 40.026
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.164
When I write some files expected to persist 1.344
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.508
# 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" 12.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:49.228
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 enabled and logged in 7.473
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 9.537
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.133
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.695
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.445
And I capture all network traffic 0.019
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 13.319
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.347
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
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52.370
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 8.974
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.110
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.998
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:9.701
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 9.152
When I enable persistence 29.347
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.495
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.454
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.349
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.279
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.557
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.609
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 9.756
And the computer reboots Tails 39.090
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.265
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.259
Given I enable persistence 6.958
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.233
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.491
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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2:31.514
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 8.196
# 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 37.462
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.918
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.101
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
Tags: @product
55.501
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 8.865
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.458
Then persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 20.356
And all notifications have disappeared 8.715
When I delete the persistent partition 2.691
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:39.714
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 8.128
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.692
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.584
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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48.960
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 7.831
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.847
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.066
And all notifications have disappeared 8.367
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.343
And all tps features are enabled 1.095
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.860
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 38.614
And I enable persistence 25.289
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.302
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.873
And persistence is enabled 1.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.454
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 7.371
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.549
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.397
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 8.461
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 18.660
When I enable persistence 7.263
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.292
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.298
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 25.615
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.170
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.614
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.136
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.360
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 7.874
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.140
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.876
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 12.584
And all notifications have disappeared 8.973
# 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" 0.171
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.109
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.207
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 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.943
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 8.346
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 19.554
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.337
When I try to enable persistence 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.938
When I log in to a new session 11.341
And all notifications have disappeared 9.073
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.320
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000