Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6120 04 Feb 2026, 17:08

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 27:32.519 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:1.900
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 1:48.540
And I update APT using apt 6.095
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.275
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.915
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 10.044
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.285
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.813
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 10.014
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.476
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.606
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.178
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.792
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.244
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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34.587
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 10.156
And the system is very low on memory 1.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.296
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.429
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.158
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.595
And I free up some memory 1.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.091
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.262
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 9.774
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.350
And all tps features are active 2.198
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.534
When I disable the first tps feature 2.632
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.089
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.592
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.061
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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15.485
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.823
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.631
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.574
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.456
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 9.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.133
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.706
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.052
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.405
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 9.577
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 12.512
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.584
When I write some files expected to persist 1.317
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.624
# 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" 17.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:52.835
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 9.653
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 10.209
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.791
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.739
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 12.497
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.447
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
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42.203
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 10.132
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.078
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.049
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:3.903
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 10.096
When I enable persistence 11.924
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.912
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.713
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.553
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.422
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.774
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.690
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.223
When I cold reboot the computer 8.652
And the computer reboots Tails 42.176
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.484
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.366
Given I enable persistence 12.087
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.094
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.431
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.110
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:28.452
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 9.434
# 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 22.486
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.170
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:26.512
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
37.813
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 9.221
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.841
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.638
And all notifications have disappeared 9.634
When I delete the persistent partition 2.981
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.160
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 9.426
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.796
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.549
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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44.795
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.396
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 7.346
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.080
And all notifications have disappeared 9.560
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.895
And all tps features are enabled 2.262
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:45.618
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 5:9.952
And I enable persistence 22.779
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.242
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.619
And persistence is enabled 2.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.445
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 8.737
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.025
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.904
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 9.701
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.246
When I enable persistence 10.573
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.153
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 9.503
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.800
When I try to enable persistence 1.327
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.272
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.567
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.272
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.600
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 9.406
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.000
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I log in to a new session 10.917
And all notifications have disappeared 9.577
# 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" 0.270
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.510
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.230
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.856
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.802
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 9.466
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.644
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.349
When I try to enable persistence 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.278
When I log in to a new session 10.889
And all notifications have disappeared 9.464
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.428
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000