Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6205 16 Mar 2026, 06:50

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 20:53.010 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.373
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:15.954
And I update APT using apt 5.360
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.225
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.325
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 8.466
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.242
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And persistence is disabled 0.155
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.985
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 21.316
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.262
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.810
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.405
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.113
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.772
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.170
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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27.416
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 7.523
And the system is very low on memory 2.954
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.257
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.542
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.371
And I free up some memory 0.863
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.761
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.589
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 8.113
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.332
And all tps features are active 1.154
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.948
When I disable the first tps feature 2.477
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.120
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.672
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.757
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.742
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 7.375
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.486
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.032
When I enable the first tps feature 2.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.635
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 7.110
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.485
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.893
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.094
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 7.158
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 38.138
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.192
When I write some files expected to persist 1.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.622
# 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" 11.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:3.286
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 7.277
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.176
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.332
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.457
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 22.277
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.408
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
Tags: @product
38.949
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 8.277
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.036
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:46.171
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 8.498
When I enable persistence 13.119
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.331
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.678
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.441
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.376
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.597
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.130
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
When I cold reboot the computer 10.262
And the computer reboots Tails 34.993
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.269
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.184
Given I enable persistence 7.196
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.234
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.485
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:3.597
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 8.067
# 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 26.598
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.400
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.241
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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37.132
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 7.741
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.112
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.904
And all notifications have disappeared 8.081
When I delete the persistent partition 2.636
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.755
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 7.365
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.468
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.661
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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38.973
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 7.602
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.877
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.306
And all notifications have disappeared 7.671
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.249
And all tps features are enabled 1.059
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.917
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 29.602
And I enable persistence 19.307
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.811
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.573
And persistence is enabled 1.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.581
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 7.123
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.837
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.740
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 7.874
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.309
When I enable persistence 6.645
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.092
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 7.453
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.550
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.092
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.362
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.185
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.228
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 7.493
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.952
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.680
And all notifications have disappeared 9.057
# 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" 0.168
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.084
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.191
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.209
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.421
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 7.476
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.459
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.337
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.537
When I log in to a new session 10.286
And all notifications have disappeared 7.820
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.473
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000