Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6241 27 Mar 2026, 17:35

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 22:1.094 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.579
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 1:21.299
And I update APT using apt 7.116
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.248
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.922
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 8.550
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.740
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.250
And persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:39.714
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 8.839
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.339
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.262
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.447
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.376
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.054
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.210
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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28.559
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 7.758
And the system is very low on memory 3.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.216
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.532
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.151
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.431
And I free up some memory 0.906
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.415
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:34.138
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 8.614
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.354
And all tps features are active 1.280
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.123
When I disable the first tps feature 2.510
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.197
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.428
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.301
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
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13.654
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 7.594
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.128
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 3.087
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.935
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 7.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.489
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.823
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.488
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 7.351
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 16.145
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.248
When I write some files expected to persist 1.242
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.360
# 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" 12.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:44.760
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 8.037
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.504
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.184
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.437
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.895
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 42.012
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.426
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.115
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40.634
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 8.941
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.089
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.024
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.765
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 8.852
When I enable persistence 12.823
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.321
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.735
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.339
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.366
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.523
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.552
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 9.170
And the computer reboots Tails 37.174
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.337
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.257
Given I enable persistence 8.632
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.233
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.089
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:9.811
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 8.420
# 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 26.957
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.289
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.858
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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37.004
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 7.589
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.261
Then persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.624
And all notifications have disappeared 8.293
When I delete the persistent partition 2.733
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:23.383
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 7.617
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.751
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.671
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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41.120
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 7.476
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.614
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.330
And all notifications have disappeared 8.210
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.255
And all tps features are enabled 0.992
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.227
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 30.069
And I enable persistence 19.876
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.963
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.611
And persistence is enabled 1.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.853
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 7.205
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.123
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.219
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.827
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.338
When I enable persistence 7.114
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.183
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 7.606
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.517
When I try to enable persistence 1.340
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 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.514
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.200
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.985
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 7.439
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.303
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 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.013
And all notifications have disappeared 9.015
# 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" 0.173
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.464
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.181
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.202
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.151
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 7.660
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.636
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.310
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.451
When I log in to a new session 10.804
And all notifications have disappeared 7.853
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.443
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000