Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6210 17 Mar 2026, 07:14

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 25:59.260 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.340
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 1:25.565
And I update APT using apt 6.750
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.213
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.639
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 9.137
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.914
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
And persistence is disabled 0.134
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 32.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:10.731
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 9.270
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.452
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 49.042
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.456
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.339
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.874
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.169
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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38.739
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 7.847
And the system is very low on memory 11.847
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.695
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.727
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.087
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.350
And I free up some memory 0.832
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.833
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:52.315
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 9.114
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.550
And all tps features are active 1.328
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.186
When I disable the first tps feature 2.617
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.164
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 26.626
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.666
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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12.752
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 7.437
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.045
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I disable the first tps feature 2.524
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.400
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.224
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 7.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.109
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.663
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.883
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.582
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 7.196
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 17.898
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.202
When I write some files expected to persist 1.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.987
# 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" 12.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:20.147
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 7.264
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 18.309
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.120
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.560
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 23.154
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.376
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
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1:2.140
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 8.933
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.091
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.859
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 34.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:3.894
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 9.033
When I enable persistence 28.236
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.675
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.723
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.338
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.309
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.545
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.887
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
When I cold reboot the computer 10.242
And the computer reboots Tails 35.761
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.286
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.212
Given I enable persistence 6.759
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.206
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.333
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:27.412
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 7.963
# 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 37.938
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.455
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.330
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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49.879
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 7.469
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.721
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 17.296
And all notifications have disappeared 8.262
When I delete the persistent partition 2.732
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:37.421
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 7.556
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.734
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.746
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
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50.149
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 7.665
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.475
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.088
And all notifications have disappeared 8.387
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.290
And all tps features are enabled 0.984
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.564
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 46.787
And I enable persistence 26.931
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.553
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.569
And persistence is enabled 1.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.195
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 7.144
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.547
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.387
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 8.247
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.530
When I enable persistence 6.589
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.018
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 7.633
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 29.096
When I try to enable persistence 1.335
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.340
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.275
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.140
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.642
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 7.318
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.095
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.830
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 0.061
When I log in to a new session 11.517
And all notifications have disappeared 8.606
# 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" 0.238
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.105
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.202
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.365
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.080
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 7.841
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 19.148
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.331
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.569
When I log in to a new session 10.961
And all notifications have disappeared 9.070
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.231
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 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000