Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6242 28 Mar 2026, 07:11

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 22:58.398 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.562
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 1:26.189
And I update APT using apt 7.028
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.291
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.436
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 8.844
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.874
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And persistence is disabled 0.137
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:44.759
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 8.977
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.349
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.455
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.439
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.500
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.661
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.216
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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30.322
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 8.861
And the system is very low on memory 3.689
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.186
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.945
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.168
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.469
And I free up some memory 0.911
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.017
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.405
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 8.810
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.435
And all tps features are active 1.352
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.236
When I disable the first tps feature 2.560
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.117
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.480
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.750
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 7.897
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 3.028
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.407
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.537
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 7.880
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.596
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.900
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.052
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 8.032
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 40.801
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.267
When I write some files expected to persist 1.446
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.137
# 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" 12.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.812
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 8.276
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 16.782
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.345
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.826
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 22.757
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.435
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
40.480
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 8.493
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.092
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.414
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.502
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 8.601
When I enable persistence 13.931
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.586
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.953
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.333
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.291
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.514
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.600
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.191
When I cold reboot the computer 9.115
And the computer reboots Tails 39.040
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.397
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
Given I enable persistence 7.083
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.087
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.215
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.155
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:13.907
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 8.627
# 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 29.490
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.012
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.810
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
39.552
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 9.155
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.352
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.611
And all notifications have disappeared 8.046
When I delete the persistent partition 2.914
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.146
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 8.832
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.893
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.143
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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44.668
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 8.500
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.901
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.093
And all notifications have disappeared 8.310
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.291
And all tps features are enabled 1.296
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.884
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 34.144
And I enable persistence 22.782
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.356
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.677
And persistence is enabled 1.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.917
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 7.650
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.631
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.682
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 9.168
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.938
When I enable persistence 7.434
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.286
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 8.693
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.678
When I try to enable persistence 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.415
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.659
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.191
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.345
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 8.259
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.120
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.428
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 11.607
And all notifications have disappeared 9.740
# 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" 0.139
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.391
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.151
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.314
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 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.382
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 8.966
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.320
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.355
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.994
When I log in to a new session 11.878
And all notifications have disappeared 8.747
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.965
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000