Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6215 18 Mar 2026, 11:03

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 21:48.410 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.566
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 1:18.991
And I update APT using apt 6.318
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.318
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.613
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 9.288
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.157
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.086
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 9.001
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.681
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.485
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.401
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.794
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.202
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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28.558
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 8.009
And the system is very low on memory 3.193
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.241
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.637
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.107
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.349
And I free up some memory 0.877
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.508
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 8.437
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And all tps features are active 1.353
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.170
When I disable the first tps feature 3.138
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.178
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.138
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.622
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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13.645
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.709
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 3.042
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.458
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.287
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 7.696
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 2.547
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.817
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.979
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 7.230
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 14.946
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.174
When I write some files expected to persist 1.240
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.803
# 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" 12.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:17.477
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 7.549
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 16.409
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.026
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.549
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 22.164
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.379
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.081
Tags: @product
41.587
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 8.868
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.076
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.467
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:46.131
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 8.478
When I enable persistence 13.859
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.562
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.856
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.375
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.333
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.525
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.973
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.120
When I cold reboot the computer 6.519
And the computer reboots Tails 36.587
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.282
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.211
Given I enable persistence 7.344
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.298
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.572
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:15.795
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 8.598
# 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 30.863
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.726
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.195
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
Tags: @product
38.696
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 8.325
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.619
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.053
And all notifications have disappeared 8.570
When I delete the persistent partition 2.638
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.775
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 7.691
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.498
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.259
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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43.920
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 8.272
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.199
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.436
And all notifications have disappeared 7.945
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.264
And all tps features are enabled 1.077
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.351
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
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 32.708
And I enable persistence 20.760
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.502
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.722
And persistence is enabled 1.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.683
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 7.232
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.860
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.332
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 8.690
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.940
When I enable persistence 6.869
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.695
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 8.285
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.203
When I try to enable persistence 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.762
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.492
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.217
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.869
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 7.938
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.665
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.047
And all notifications have disappeared 9.074
# 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" 0.339
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.096
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.316
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.847
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 8.205
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.965
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.047
When I log in to a new session 10.589
And all notifications have disappeared 9.218
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.411
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000