Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6118 04 Feb 2026, 11:27

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 21:40.564 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.397
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:50.225
And I update APT using apt 5.930
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.372
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.518
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 8.738
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.650
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.266
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.073
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 9.340
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.290
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.476
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.725
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.533
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.188
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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30.071
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 8.096
And the system is very low on memory 2.937
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.254
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.906
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.198
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.531
And I free up some memory 0.827
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.885
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.807
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 8.542
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
And all tps features are active 1.407
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.601
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.219
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.079
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.244
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.824
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 8.199
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.609
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 2.593
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.193
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 7.567
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 2.593
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.826
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.657
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 7.299
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.084
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.177
When I write some files expected to persist 1.282
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.104
# 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" 12.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:47.238
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 7.924
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 10.263
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.953
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.467
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.870
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.434
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.044
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.075
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40.706
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 8.830
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.123
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.470
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:53.348
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 8.909
When I enable persistence 13.966
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.554
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.840
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.384
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.357
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.538
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.141
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.182
When I cold reboot the computer 10.752
And the computer reboots Tails 38.354
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.445
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.232
Given I enable persistence 7.196
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.284
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.906
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
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2:15.025
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 8.699
# 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 29.434
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.420
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.019
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
Tags: @product
40.712
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 8.963
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.352
Then persistence is disabled 0.149
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.764
And all notifications have disappeared 8.292
When I delete the persistent partition 2.763
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:20.955
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 8.354
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.412
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.883
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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42.649
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 8.572
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.448
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.490
And all notifications have disappeared 8.271
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.265
And all tps features are enabled 1.128
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.157
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 35.477
And I enable persistence 19.269
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.244
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.584
And persistence is enabled 1.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.506
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 7.235
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.704
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.594
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 8.660
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.638
When I enable persistence 6.912
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.129
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.417
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 8.944
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.545
When I try to enable persistence 1.245
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.818
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.375
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.199
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.115
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 8.151
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.178
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 12.487
And all notifications have disappeared 9.563
# 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" 0.198
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.443
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.208
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.366
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.592
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 8.172
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.604
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.390
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.095
When I log in to a new session 11.652
And all notifications have disappeared 9.085
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.561
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000