Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6116 03 Feb 2026, 19:31

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 29:50.037 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:8.639
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 1:53.007
And I update APT using apt 8.185
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.342
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.530
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 12.289
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.245
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.349
And persistence is disabled 0.136
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:55.433
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 13.336
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.552
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.378
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.498
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.868
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.202
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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37.131
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 10.714
And the system is very low on memory 4.235
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.179
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.630
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.182
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.542
And I free up some memory 1.027
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:51.530
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 enabled and logged in 11.970
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.384
And all tps features are active 2.057
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.155
When I disable the first tps feature 3.068
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.963
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.228
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.714
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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15.908
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 9.757
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 3.103
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.560
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.799
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 9.448
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 3.129
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.030
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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52.997
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 9.584
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 13.501
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.599
When I write some files expected to persist 1.269
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.560
# 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" 17.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:55.810
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 9.669
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 9.798
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.165
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.870
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.391
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.098
And Tor is ready 13.036
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.400
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.101
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.068
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50.485
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.002
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.145
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.201
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.892
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 12.162
When I enable persistence 22.078
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.728
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.072
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.560
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.489
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.819
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.943
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
When I cold reboot the computer 11.575
And the computer reboots Tails 40.861
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.410
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.321
Given I enable persistence 9.960
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.108
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.359
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.103
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:27.383
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 12.050
# 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 30.020
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.710
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.837
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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46.352
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 10.739
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.108
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.091
And all notifications have disappeared 9.953
When I delete the persistent partition 2.930
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:38.593
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 10.640
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.695
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.844
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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53.968
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 10.528
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.387
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.586
And all notifications have disappeared 9.651
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.386
And all tps features are enabled 2.107
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:0.789
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 5:20.849
And I enable persistence 25.921
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.209
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.620
And persistence is enabled 2.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.684
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 9.238
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.839
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.050
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 11.780
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.341
When I enable persistence 10.531
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.782
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 11.004
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.987
When I try to enable persistence 1.345
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.841
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.760
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.320
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.915
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 10.726
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.767
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.314
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 13.125
And all notifications have disappeared 9.579
# 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" 0.260
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.521
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.245
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.860
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.356
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 10.724
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.756
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.362
When I try to enable persistence 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.616
When I log in to a new session 11.680
And all notifications have disappeared 10.427
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.411
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000