Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6124 06 Feb 2026, 07:05

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 19:33.368 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:27.089
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 1:14.911
And I update APT using apt 5.137
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.236
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.937
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 8.217
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.246
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.452
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 8.672
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.404
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.448
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.328
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.870
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.194
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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27.453
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.540
And the system is very low on memory 3.054
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.288
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.595
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.109
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.328
And I free up some memory 0.734
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.726
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.576
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 8.360
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And all tps features are active 1.057
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.687
When I disable the first tps feature 2.537
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.994
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.686
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.908
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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12.727
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.321
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.568
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.081
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.656
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 enabled and logged in 7.229
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 2.484
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.774
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.968
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 enabled and logged in 7.254
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.524
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.190
When I write some files expected to persist 1.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.250
# 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" 11.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.253
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 7.269
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 11.034
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.113
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.371
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.586
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.361
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.333
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
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38.875
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.672
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.632
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:41.379
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 8.663
When I enable persistence 13.908
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.324
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.282
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.268
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.496
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.619
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.129
When I cold reboot the computer 6.131
And the computer reboots Tails 35.776
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.243
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.203
Given I enable persistence 6.727
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.239
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.924
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:3.862
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 enabled and logged in 7.899
# 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 28.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.172
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.537
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
36.109
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.384
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.735
Then persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.660
And all notifications have disappeared 8.172
When I delete the persistent partition 2.726
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.428
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 enabled and logged in 7.374
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.214
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.535
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
38.207
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.527
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.081
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.207
And all notifications have disappeared 7.928
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.218
And all tps features are enabled 0.985
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.554
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 29.967
And I enable persistence 18.946
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.497
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.606
And persistence is enabled 1.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.482
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.016
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.968
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.385
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.818
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.353
When I enable persistence 6.559
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.077
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.609
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 7.355
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.864
When I try to enable persistence 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.544
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.284
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.173
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.753
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 7.246
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.127
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 9.436
And all notifications have disappeared 7.999
# 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" 0.161
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.118
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.187
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.282
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.604
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 7.288
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.707
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.292
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.378
When I log in to a new session 9.224
And all notifications have disappeared 8.478
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.272
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000