Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6224 23 Mar 2026, 20:09

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 25:36.950 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:43.701
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:29.159
And I update APT using apt 7.288
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.237
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.236
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 9.026
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.687
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.608
And persistence is disabled 0.151
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:6.799
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 9.258
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.385
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.127
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 32.949
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.612
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.165
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.038
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.213
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
40.196
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 8.567
And the system is very low on memory 10.555
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.425
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.254
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.111
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.498
And I free up some memory 0.853
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.430
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.661
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 9.368
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.635
And all tps features are active 1.354
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.574
When I disable the first tps feature 3.457
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.269
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.063
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.771
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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14.482
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.161
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.109
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.098
When I disable the first tps feature 3.138
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.651
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.147
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 7.786
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I disable the first tps feature 3.152
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.973
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.250
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 8.036
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 43.865
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.225
When I write some files expected to persist 1.350
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.004
# 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" 13.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.055
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 7.808
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 17.884
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.474
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.374
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 23.691
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.427
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
52.410
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.207
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.890
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:5.119
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 9.799
When I enable persistence 20.757
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.771
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.225
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.348
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.298
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.595
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.044
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
When I cold reboot the computer 10.871
And the computer reboots Tails 38.812
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.361
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
Given I enable persistence 7.419
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.261
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.901
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:31.548
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 8.900
# 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 38.614
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.565
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.507
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
50.041
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 8.642
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.190
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.384
And all notifications have disappeared 9.078
When I delete the persistent partition 3.301
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:29.466
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.217
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.944
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.932
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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46.706
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 8.215
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.316
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.274
And all notifications have disappeared 7.891
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.835
And all tps features are enabled 1.584
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.635
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 37.928
And I enable persistence 26.968
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.319
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.658
And persistence is enabled 1.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.219
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.759
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.865
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.891
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 8.028
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 17.626
When I enable persistence 8.109
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.051
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 7.740
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.499
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.639
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.156
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.287
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 8.202
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.693
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 12.400
And all notifications have disappeared 11.072
# 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" 0.195
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.634
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.269
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.398
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.041
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 8.230
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.480
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.382
When I log in to a new session 11.972
And all notifications have disappeared 8.723
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.535
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000