Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6211 17 Mar 2026, 11:21

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 25:17.584 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:48.829
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 1:29.266
And I update APT using apt 9.272
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.430
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.918
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 9.708
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.998
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:7.227
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 9.720
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.570
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 36.343
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.616
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.383
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.157
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.241
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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38.608
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 7.902
And the system is very low on memory 7.675
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.796
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.886
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.129
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.409
And I free up some memory 0.927
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.109
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:48.913
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 9.032
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 1.416
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.202
When I disable the first tps feature 3.126
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.338
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.220
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.907
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
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14.996
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 9.102
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.963
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.506
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.416
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 8.147
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 3.117
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.965
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.418
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 7.520
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 18.469
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.313
When I write some files expected to persist 1.564
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.942
# 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" 13.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.079
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 7.904
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 18.656
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.894
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.385
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.522
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.352
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
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1:4.616
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 23.060
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.209
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.308
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:7.561
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 10.041
When I enable persistence 22.355
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.071
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.405
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.395
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.315
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.544
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.546
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.292
When I cold reboot the computer 8.463
And the computer reboots Tails 39.981
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.319
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.249
Given I enable persistence 8.608
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.112
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.331
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.341
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:24.353
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 9.726
# 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 34.683
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.414
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.684
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
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49.030
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 9.413
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.057
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.048
And all notifications have disappeared 9.551
When I delete the persistent partition 3.379
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.113
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 7.858
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.955
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.880
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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45.664
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 8.218
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.075
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.242
And all notifications have disappeared 8.546
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.347
And all tps features are enabled 1.646
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:14.619
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 35.201
And I enable persistence 25.080
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.454
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.707
And persistence is enabled 2.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.185
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 7.565
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.946
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.707
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.004
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.431
When I enable persistence 7.248
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.399
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 9.320
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.729
When I try to enable persistence 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.815
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.584
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.155
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.816
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 7.932
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.287
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 13.493
And all notifications have disappeared 9.992
# 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" 0.181
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.764
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.362
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.368
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.105
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 8.526
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.173
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.434
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.688
When I log in to a new session 11.771
And all notifications have disappeared 10.953
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.352
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000