Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6216 19 Mar 2026, 06:55

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 20:46.425 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.361
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 1:17.111
And I update APT using apt 6.050
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.335
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.152
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 8.472
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.274
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.252
And persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.932
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.934
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.341
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.186
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.490
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.336
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.311
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.178
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
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28.186
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 7.613
And the system is very low on memory 3.098
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.240
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.771
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.094
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.356
And I free up some memory 0.841
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.106
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:29.310
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 8.315
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
And all tps features are active 1.100
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.903
When I disable the first tps feature 2.542
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.215
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.766
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.098
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.878
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 7.529
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.527
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.427
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.803
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 7.226
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.533
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.874
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.075
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 7.294
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 16.661
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.231
When I write some files expected to persist 1.183
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.925
# 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" 11.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:9.419
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 7.494
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 15.915
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.394
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.906
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 23.006
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.073
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37.361
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 8.516
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.067
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.789
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:42.754
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 8.531
When I enable persistence 13.629
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.188
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.427
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.333
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.305
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.514
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.124
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
When I cold reboot the computer 6.160
And the computer reboots Tails 36.151
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.302
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.210
Given I enable persistence 7.069
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.260
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.104
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.068
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2:6.302
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 8.225
# 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 27.800
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.289
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.418
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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37.469
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 7.947
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.916
Then persistence is disabled 0.147
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.214
And all notifications have disappeared 8.196
When I delete the persistent partition 2.704
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.752
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 7.642
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.956
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.868
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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39.832
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 7.723
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.036
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.805
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.729
And all notifications have disappeared 7.941
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.239
And all tps features are enabled 1.053
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.415
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 30.569
And I enable persistence 19.007
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.796
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.561
And persistence is enabled 1.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.400
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 7.190
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.713
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.727
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 7.537
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.961
When I enable persistence 6.590
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.123
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 7.396
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.696
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.120
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.357
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.178
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.373
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 7.552
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.130
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.935
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.137
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 10.834
And all notifications have disappeared 8.819
# 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" 0.235
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.384
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.157
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.189
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.790
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 7.534
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.422
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.319
When I try to enable persistence 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.701
When I log in to a new session 9.926
And all notifications have disappeared 8.423
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.395
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000