Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6264 05 Apr 2026, 07:10

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 22:35.771 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.304
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.810
And I update APT using apt 6.143
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.227
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.783
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 8.964
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.042
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.246
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.259
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 8.783
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.337
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.673
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.434
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.495
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.173
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.231
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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32.060
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 8.242
And the system is very low on memory 3.584
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.379
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.185
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.116
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.415
And I free up some memory 0.918
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.677
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.665
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 8.974
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.362
And all tps features are active 1.334
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.197
When I disable the first tps feature 3.011
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.196
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.483
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.618
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
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13.219
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 7.760
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 2.590
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.581
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 7.398
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 3.081
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.925
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.839
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 7.409
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 16.280
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.260
When I write some files expected to persist 1.309
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.301
# 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" 12.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:28.881
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 7.749
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.999
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.476
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.625
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.232
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.473
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.048
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.067
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41.925
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.124
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.103
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.858
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.708
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.147
When I enable persistence 15.222
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.413
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.884
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.405
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" 4.587
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.507
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
When I cold reboot the computer 10.648
And the computer reboots Tails 40.398
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.382
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.246
Given I enable persistence 7.676
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.231
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.171
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:17.018
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 8.912
# 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 30.588
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.150
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.831
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
Tags: @product
40.731
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 8.464
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.364
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.531
And all notifications have disappeared 8.629
When I delete the persistent partition 3.219
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.894
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 7.776
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.950
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.897
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.071
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45.155
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 8.212
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.101
When I try to enable persistence 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.568
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.921
And all notifications have disappeared 8.204
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.457
And all tps features are enabled 1.144
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.803
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 32.979
And I enable persistence 21.609
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.781
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.645
And persistence is enabled 1.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.663
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 7.428
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.656
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.358
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 9.033
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.937
When I enable persistence 7.288
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.090
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.086
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 8.390
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.272
When I try to enable persistence 1.374
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.877
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.671
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.190
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.609
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 7.525
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.613
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.897
And all notifications have disappeared 8.864
# 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" 0.166
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.644
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.214
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.241
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.219
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 7.831
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.223
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.330
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.055
When I log in to a new session 11.814
And all notifications have disappeared 9.123
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.574
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000