Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6237 26 Mar 2026, 11:33

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 26:11.212 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:41.905
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:26.916
And I update APT using apt 7.718
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.276
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.444
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 8.704
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.789
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
And persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:8.261
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 9.971
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.606
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.139
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 34.752
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.488
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.114
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.966
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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34.545
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 7.836
And the system is very low on memory 6.404
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.188
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.076
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.226
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.423
And I free up some memory 0.894
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.977
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:48.307
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 9.175
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.523
And all tps features are active 1.386
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.545
When I disable the first tps feature 3.127
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.309
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.312
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.640
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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14.658
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.557
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.098
When I disable the first tps feature 3.195
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.383
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.069
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 3.139
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.985
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.999
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 7.760
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 21.208
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.366
When I write some files expected to persist 1.270
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.255
# 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" 13.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:46.835
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 7.981
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 18.041
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.155
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.920
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.457
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 42.629
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.355
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
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56.007
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.849
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.157
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:12.286
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.428
When I enable persistence 28.802
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.298
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.915
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.291
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.207
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.516
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.326
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
When I cold reboot the computer 9.277
And the computer reboots Tails 40.040
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.330
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.248
Given I enable persistence 8.078
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.292
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.781
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:26.191
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 8.752
# 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 32.366
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.302
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.272
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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51.871
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 9.078
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.933
Then persistence is disabled 0.136
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.334
And all notifications have disappeared 9.164
When I delete the persistent partition 2.725
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:30.149
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 7.994
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.989
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.867
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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52.627
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.586
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.119
When I try to enable persistence 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.281
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.987
And all notifications have disappeared 9.283
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.297
And all tps features are enabled 1.360
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.353
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 42.337
And I enable persistence 29.583
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.373
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.167
And persistence is enabled 1.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.147
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 7.328
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.155
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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33.712
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.771
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 16.473
When I enable persistence 6.682
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.403
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 7.835
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.186
When I try to enable persistence 1.335
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.096
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.550
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.154
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.786
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.874
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.634
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.944
And all notifications have disappeared 9.417
# 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 0.420
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.282
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.764
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.335
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 7.992
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.273
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.418
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.398
When I log in to a new session 13.540
And all notifications have disappeared 8.037
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.595
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000