Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6236 26 Mar 2026, 07:02

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 22:12.917 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.152
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 1:21.516
And I update APT using apt 6.329
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.262
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.867
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 9.049
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.064
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
And persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.043
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 9.115
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.344
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.393
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.465
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.007
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.231
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.255
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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30.713
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 7.890
And the system is very low on memory 3.674
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.217
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.569
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.437
And I free up some memory 1.330
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.990
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.234
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 8.592
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.407
And all tps features are active 1.295
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.483
When I disable the first tps feature 2.525
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.165
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.645
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.817
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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13.307
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 7.793
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.494
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.609
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.500
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 7.784
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.597
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.923
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.957
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 7.617
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 40.666
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.265
When I write some files expected to persist 1.217
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.052
# 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" 12.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:9.250
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 7.536
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 16.732
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.172
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.163
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.056
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 13.891
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.388
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.124
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.111
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41.662
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 8.592
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.097
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.087
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.548
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 8.532
When I enable persistence 14.926
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.326
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.621
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.286
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.278
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.615
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.652
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 9.084
And the computer reboots Tails 37.358
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.353
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.207
Given I enable persistence 7.059
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.307
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.516
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:15.836
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 8.169
# 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 29.090
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.588
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.597
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.036
Tags: @product
39.323
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 8.545
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.654
Then persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.707
And all notifications have disappeared 8.243
When I delete the persistent partition 2.704
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.346
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 7.886
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.425
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.697
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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42.940
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 8.214
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.936
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.701
And all notifications have disappeared 8.258
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.290
And all tps features are enabled 1.133
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.085
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 32.617
And I enable persistence 21.081
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.134
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.635
And persistence is enabled 1.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.469
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 7.291
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.621
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.597
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 8.835
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.499
When I enable persistence 6.355
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.735
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 8.122
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.401
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.208
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.323
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.177
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.959
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 7.628
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.141
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.434
And all notifications have disappeared 9.399
# 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" 0.187
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.105
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.165
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.387
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.382
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 8.022
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.554
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.281
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.202
When I log in to a new session 10.541
And all notifications have disappeared 9.552
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.896
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000