Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6239 27 Mar 2026, 06:59

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 21:49.042 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.685
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 1:21.937
And I update APT using apt 6.571
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.294
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.354
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 8.927
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.719
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:39.606
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 logged in 8.957
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.990
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.445
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.025
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.226
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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31.044
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 8.023
And the system is very low on memory 3.916
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.177
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.932
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.192
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.455
And I free up some memory 0.918
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.906
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.848
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 8.742
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.298
And all tps features are active 1.425
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.291
When I disable the first tps feature 2.473
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.896
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.385
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.401
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 7.929
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.595
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.121
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 7.522
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.482
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.917
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.469
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 8.089
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 18.059
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.380
When I write some files expected to persist 1.393
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.022
# 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" 12.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:29.373
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 8.060
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 16.648
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.579
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.825
And I capture all network traffic 0.019
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 22.364
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.393
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
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39.820
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 9.068
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.923
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:55.881
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 8.896
When I enable persistence 14.122
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.389
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.833
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.395
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.367
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 6.272
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.447
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.200
When I cold reboot the computer 9.014
And the computer reboots Tails 37.781
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.356
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.229
Given I enable persistence 7.677
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.250
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.435
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:7.078
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 8.948
# 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 28.399
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.017
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.815
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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38.355
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 8.299
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.974
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.152
And all notifications have disappeared 8.492
When I delete the persistent partition 2.969
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:23.374
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 8.281
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.692
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.112
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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42.984
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 8.383
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.799
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.943
And all notifications have disappeared 8.186
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.255
And all tps features are enabled 1.036
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.538
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 33.133
And I enable persistence 20.821
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.232
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.602
And persistence is enabled 1.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.747
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 7.186
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.062
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.000
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 7.991
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.690
When I enable persistence 6.613
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.731
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 7.939
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.352
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.470
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.369
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.184
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.622
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 7.677
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.855
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.937
And all notifications have disappeared 7.941
# 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" 0.184
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.147
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.328
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.216
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.002
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 7.605
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.167
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.321
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.844
When I log in to a new session 9.654
And all notifications have disappeared 9.032
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.438
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000