Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6121 05 Feb 2026, 11:55

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 21:46.669 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.451
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 1:23.961
And I update APT using apt 6.100
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.226
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.898
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 9.426
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.181
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.339
And persistence is disabled 0.149
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.134
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 9.467
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.439
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.791
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.541
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.628
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.859
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.230
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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30.590
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 8.296
And the system is very low on memory 3.285
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.215
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.796
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.124
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.705
And I free up some memory 0.975
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.743
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.706
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.883
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
And all tps features are active 1.471
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.596
When I disable the first tps feature 3.091
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.382
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.825
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.895
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
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14.195
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 8.068
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.150
When I disable the first tps feature 3.105
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.006
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 7.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.119
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.047
And I disable the first tps feature 3.121
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.123
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.634
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 7.951
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.395
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.279
When I write some files expected to persist 1.465
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.023
# 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" 13.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:44.342
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 7.802
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.745
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.849
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.234
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 12.006
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.375
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.092
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40.274
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.063
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.125
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.435
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:57.373
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 9.539
When I enable persistence 13.926
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.736
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.099
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.362
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.281
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.533
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.103
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.208
When I cold reboot the computer 9.456
And the computer reboots Tails 39.754
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.320
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.236
Given I enable persistence 8.999
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.130
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.326
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.196
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:17.481
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 8.815
# 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 29.325
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.720
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.173
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
42.010
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 9.079
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.343
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.515
And all notifications have disappeared 8.850
When I delete the persistent partition 2.654
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.544
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 enabled and logged in 8.672
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.617
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.882
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
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47.460
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.787
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.452
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.385
And all notifications have disappeared 8.875
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.889
And all tps features are enabled 1.515
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.582
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 31.042
And I enable persistence 21.053
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.047
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.567
And persistence is enabled 1.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.103
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 8.000
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.362
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.966
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 8.298
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.813
When I enable persistence 7.688
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.905
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.791
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.639
When I try to enable persistence 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.416
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.303
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.140
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.289
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 7.876
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.128
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 12.753
And all notifications have disappeared 9.268
# 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" 0.192
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.614
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.292
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.841
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.714
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 8.072
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.876
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.682
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.016
When I log in to a new session 11.219
And all notifications have disappeared 8.708
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.004
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000