Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6117 04 Feb 2026, 08:03

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 24:47.399 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.364
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 1:22.331
And I update APT using apt 6.649
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.385
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.411
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 9.172
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.729
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.272
And persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 23.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.860
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 8.797
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.732
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 40.344
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.522
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.954
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.098
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.229
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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35.205
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 7.934
And the system is very low on memory 8.680
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.155
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.344
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.160
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.398
And I free up some memory 0.947
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.489
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.174
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 9.175
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.519
And all tps features are active 1.125
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.920
When I disable the first tps feature 2.536
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.292
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.225
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.274
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
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13.548
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 7.947
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 2.674
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.487
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.492
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 7.399
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I disable the first tps feature 2.539
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.325
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.507
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 7.651
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.180
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.261
When I write some files expected to persist 1.427
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.780
# 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" 13.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:55.292
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 7.565
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.478
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.884
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.441
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.228
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.372
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.068
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1:5.629
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.377
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.248
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.153
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 38.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:21.902
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 9.051
When I enable persistence 28.916
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.313
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.878
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.637
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.336
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.601
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.098
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
When I cold reboot the computer 10.673
And the computer reboots Tails 49.954
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.317
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.228
Given I enable persistence 7.318
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.118
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.281
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.903
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:27.819
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 7.607
# 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 36.343
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.317
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.869
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
51.048
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 8.237
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.277
Then persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.190
And all notifications have disappeared 9.303
When I delete the persistent partition 2.624
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.423
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 7.664
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.154
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.030
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.277
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
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48.893
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 8.175
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.627
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.332
And all notifications have disappeared 8.158
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.804
And all tps features are enabled 1.425
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.166
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 39.704
And I enable persistence 25.954
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.321
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.570
And persistence is enabled 1.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.682
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 7.761
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.089
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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34.223
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 8.596
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 16.961
When I enable persistence 6.758
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.680
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 8.526
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.549
When I try to enable persistence 1.339
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.261
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.459
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.216
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.544
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 8.199
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.287
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 12.285
And all notifications have disappeared 9.144
# 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" 0.227
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.136
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.306
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.514
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.526
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 8.426
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.992
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.348
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.434
When I log in to a new session 12.360
And all notifications have disappeared 9.359
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.489
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000