Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6245 29 Mar 2026, 10:56

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 20:48.386 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.184
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 1:16.474
And I update APT using apt 5.663
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.224
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.903
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 8.524
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.273
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.088
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 8.504
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.536
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.450
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.736
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.284
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.168
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
Tags: @product
28.173
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 7.552
And the system is very low on memory 3.714
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
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" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.341
And I free up some memory 0.814
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.878
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.873
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 8.156
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And all tps features are active 1.127
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.871
When I disable the first tps feature 2.583
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.641
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.077
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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12.915
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 enabled and logged in 7.588
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.081
When I disable the first tps feature 2.462
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.587
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 7.103
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 2.462
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.836
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.357
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 7.337
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 17.477
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.179
When I write some files expected to persist 1.187
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.435
# 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" 11.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:21.319
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
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 15.354
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.268
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.850
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 21.663
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.057
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
Tags: @product
38.857
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.523
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.885
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.094
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 8.642
When I enable persistence 13.862
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.949
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.376
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.334
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.259
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.574
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.946
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
When I cold reboot the computer 10.082
And the computer reboots Tails 35.674
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.288
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.204
Given I enable persistence 6.858
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.202
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.502
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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2:6.158
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 enabled and logged in 8.045
# 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 26.163
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.093
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.284
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
Tags: @product
36.660
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 7.818
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.785
Then persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.028
And all notifications have disappeared 7.938
When I delete the persistent partition 2.691
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.322
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 7.501
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.323
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.231
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
40.545
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 7.652
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.296
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.046
And all notifications have disappeared 8.053
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.232
And all tps features are enabled 0.977
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.974
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 30.236
And I enable persistence 18.549
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.127
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.579
And persistence is enabled 1.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.347
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 7.121
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.704
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.268
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 8.264
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.694
When I enable persistence 6.522
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.009
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 7.654
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.017
When I try to enable persistence 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.274
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.310
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.209
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.676
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 7.350
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.749
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.745
And all notifications have disappeared 9.663
# 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" 0.186
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.397
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.145
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 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.068
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 7.340
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.798
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.917
When I log in to a new session 10.217
And all notifications have disappeared 8.366
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.197
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000