Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6230 25 Mar 2026, 11:23

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 25:28.703 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:42.696
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 1:27.875
And I update APT using apt 7.670
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.285
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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35.316
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 9.168
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.442
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:55.420
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 9.487
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.492
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.150
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.820
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.492
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.101
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.604
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.226
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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39.382
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 8.521
And the system is very low on memory 8.702
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.862
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.143
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.154
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.380
And I free up some memory 1.140
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.824
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:49.954
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 9.028
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.465
And all tps features are active 1.338
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.523
When I disable the first tps feature 2.813
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.507
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.567
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.535
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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13.932
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.400
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.108
When I disable the first tps feature 2.605
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.437
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.703
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 7.677
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I disable the first tps feature 2.765
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.024
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.815
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 7.400
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 19.472
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.252
When I write some files expected to persist 1.214
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.968
# 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" 13.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:32.753
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 8.014
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 20.671
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.154
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.761
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.260
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 23.196
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.376
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.072
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56.970
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.744
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.195
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.513
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:10.644
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 9.127
When I enable persistence 24.482
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.697
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.425
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.395
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.339
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.626
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.851
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
When I cold reboot the computer 10.862
And the computer reboots Tails 41.817
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.275
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
Given I enable persistence 7.406
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.305
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.406
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:33.608
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 9.004
# 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 41.848
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.752
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.826
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
46.972
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 9.431
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.809
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.516
And all notifications have disappeared 8.922
When I delete the persistent partition 2.804
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:34.531
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 8.694
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.444
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.826
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
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52.073
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 8.799
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.428
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.095
And all notifications have disappeared 8.674
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.325
And all tps features are enabled 1.325
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.914
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 36.917
And I enable persistence 25.246
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.145
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.685
And persistence is enabled 1.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.566
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.551
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.279
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.954
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 9.798
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 17.115
When I enable persistence 8.550
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.147
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 8.529
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.726
When I try to enable persistence 1.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.431
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.632
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.159
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.273
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 8.746
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.495
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I log in to a new session 12.913
And all notifications have disappeared 10.302
# 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" 0.157
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.592
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.243
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.477
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.071
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 8.472
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.299
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.408
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.938
When I log in to a new session 11.700
And all notifications have disappeared 9.721
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.410
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000