Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6244 29 Mar 2026, 08:07

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 25:26.899 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.533
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 1:23.548
And I update APT using apt 7.584
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.260
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.359
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 9.448
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.972
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.070
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 8.929
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.396
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.158
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.489
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.329
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.340
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.270
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
39.658
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 7.565
And the system is very low on memory 11.786
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.703
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.598
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.101
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.407
And I free up some memory 0.861
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.103
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.629
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 9.062
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.142
And all tps features are active 1.535
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.484
When I disable the first tps feature 2.815
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.418
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.250
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.683
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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14.140
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 8.067
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 3.125
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 2.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.318
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 20.368
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 2.676
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.013
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.580
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 7.552
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 21.557
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.309
When I write some files expected to persist 1.204
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.762
# 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" 13.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.876
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 8.072
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 18.419
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.615
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.205
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 22.802
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.104
Tags: @product
59.865
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 8.660
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.125
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.164
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 28.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:8.047
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 9.003
When I enable persistence 24.363
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.793
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.976
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.347
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.511
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.587
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.791
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
When I cold reboot the computer 10.554
And the computer reboots Tails 38.879
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.349
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.274
Given I enable persistence 8.627
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.087
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.349
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.232
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:22.599
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 8.289
# 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 35.588
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.863
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.192
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
50.779
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 8.183
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.160
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.266
And all notifications have disappeared 8.943
When I delete the persistent partition 2.721
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.423
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 8.136
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.843
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.125
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
49.087
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 7.945
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.009
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.433
And all notifications have disappeared 8.433
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.298
And all tps features are enabled 1.392
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:20.366
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 42.039
And I enable persistence 25.484
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.419
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.583
And persistence is enabled 1.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.784
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 7.467
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.742
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.892
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 8.920
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 18.428
When I enable persistence 7.506
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.083
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 7.692
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.290
When I try to enable persistence 1.315
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.472
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.602
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.158
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.894
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 7.791
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.413
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 13.467
And all notifications have disappeared 8.883
# 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" 0.324
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.124
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.189
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.366
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.906
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 8.083
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.253
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.406
When I try to enable persistence 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.217
When I log in to a new session 12.531
And all notifications have disappeared 8.847
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.479
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 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000