Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6115 03 Feb 2026, 12:14

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 24:52.075 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.878
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.270
And I update APT using apt 7.552
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.232
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.688
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 8.606
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.764
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 23.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.362
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 9.215
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.386
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 48.856
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.429
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.218
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.944
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.171
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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40.289
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 7.421
And the system is very low on memory 15.528
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.621
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.644
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.109
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.382
And I free up some memory 0.797
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.737
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.154
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 enabled and logged in 8.506
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.476
And all tps features are active 1.326
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.967
When I disable the first tps feature 2.510
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.018
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 26.163
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.167
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.083
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 7.207
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 3.018
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.426
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.616
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 7.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 3.117
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.802
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.175
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 7.318
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 10.258
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.176
When I write some files expected to persist 1.101
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.095
# 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" 12.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:53.478
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 7.214
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 10.090
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.102
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.275
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.054
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.388
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.069
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50.053
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.604
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.359
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.703
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.500
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 8.606
When I enable persistence 21.396
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.235
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.741
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.270
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.200
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.488
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.356
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
When I cold reboot the computer 10.236
And the computer reboots Tails 34.951
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.251
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.178
Given I enable persistence 6.724
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.244
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.189
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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2:50.726
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 8.287
# 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 45.750
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 27.839
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.227
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
51.353
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 7.835
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.787
Then persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 17.864
And all notifications have disappeared 8.772
When I delete the persistent partition 2.655
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.981
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 7.684
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.578
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.449
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
46.156
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 7.713
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.563
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.386
And all notifications have disappeared 7.877
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.259
And all tps features are enabled 1.004
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.227
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 43.517
And I enable persistence 29.370
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.289
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.565
And persistence is enabled 1.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.268
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 7.121
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.635
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.174
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 7.639
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 26.510
When I enable persistence 6.385
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.556
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 7.414
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 25.698
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.738
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.224
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.138
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.863
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 7.303
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.848
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.131
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.704
And all notifications have disappeared 8.954
# 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" 0.262
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.095
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.149
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.345
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.486
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 7.340
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 22.867
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.359
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.769
When I log in to a new session 10.766
And all notifications have disappeared 8.086
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.250
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000