Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6212 17 Mar 2026, 13:01

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 24:53.384 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.373
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.886
And I update APT using apt 7.069
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.376
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.569
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 8.994
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.434
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.231
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.677
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 9.381
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.574
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.126
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 33.919
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.499
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.927
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.008
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.187
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
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36.400
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 7.789
And the system is very low on memory 8.240
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.214
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.195
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.120
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.382
And I free up some memory 0.866
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.128
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:44.325
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 8.675
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.497
And all tps features are active 1.315
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.443
When I disable the first tps feature 2.698
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.356
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.417
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.713
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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14.275
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 8.050
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.083
When I disable the first tps feature 3.069
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.080
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.616
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.852
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 7.413
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 3.140
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.065
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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54.352
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 7.595
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 17.266
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.270
When I write some files expected to persist 1.176
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.293
# 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" 12.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:32.453
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 8.512
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 18.156
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.784
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.651
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 23.600
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.378
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
Tags: @product
44.982
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 8.813
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.093
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.954
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:4.358
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 9.885
When I enable persistence 20.224
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.543
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.079
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.345
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.227
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.585
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.518
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
When I cold reboot the computer 10.914
And the computer reboots Tails 38.746
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.366
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.241
Given I enable persistence 8.305
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.094
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.288
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.652
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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2:43.934
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 8.979
# 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 45.854
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.153
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:18.789
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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55.195
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 8.014
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.626
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 20.163
And all notifications have disappeared 9.144
When I delete the persistent partition 2.711
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.414
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 8.024
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.583
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.474
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
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51.474
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 8.155
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.440
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.703
And all notifications have disappeared 8.577
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.409
And all tps features are enabled 1.810
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.175
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 36.903
And I enable persistence 25.313
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.547
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.596
And persistence is enabled 1.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.856
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 7.267
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.006
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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35.346
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 8.396
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 18.139
When I enable persistence 6.954
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.709
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 7.622
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.463
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.513
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.439
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.177
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.935
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 7.716
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.109
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 12.771
And all notifications have disappeared 10.740
# 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" 0.180
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.477
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.162
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.446
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.718
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.919
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.115
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.299
When I try to enable persistence 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.132
When I log in to a new session 11.654
And all notifications have disappeared 9.716
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.838
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000