Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6345 02 May 2026, 07:15

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 20:41.642 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.939
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 1:17.961
And I update APT using apt 5.849
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.230
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.518
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 8.490
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.622
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.355
And persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.409
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.398
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.363
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.297
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.423
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.404
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.203
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.167
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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27.339
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 7.318
And the system is very low on memory 3.246
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.153
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.825
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.362
And I free up some memory 0.851
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.420
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.325
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 8.062
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And all tps features are active 1.340
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.992
When I disable the first tps feature 2.558
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.252
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.701
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.935
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 7.695
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.422
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.782
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 7.160
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.558
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.876
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.015
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 7.347
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 14.829
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.220
When I write some files expected to persist 1.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.787
# 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" 11.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:21.768
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 7.320
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 16.434
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.547
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.234
And I capture all network traffic 0.023
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 22.515
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.346
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.099
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
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37.120
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.411
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.078
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.745
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:42.743
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 8.453
When I enable persistence 12.459
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.735
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.213
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.298
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.200
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.470
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.076
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.220
When I cold reboot the computer 10.121
And the computer reboots Tails 35.656
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.252
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.177
Given I enable persistence 6.071
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.259
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.846
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:9.150
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 8.306
# 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 28.413
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.370
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.627
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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36.023
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 7.819
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.361
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.008
And all notifications have disappeared 7.812
When I delete the persistent partition 2.610
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:14.490
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 7.677
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.328
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.189
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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38.824
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 7.228
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.780
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.439
And all notifications have disappeared 7.754
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.276
And all tps features are enabled 1.013
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.691
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 29.536
And I enable persistence 19.041
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.965
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.517
And persistence is enabled 1.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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21.993
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 6.898
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.568
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.331
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 7.819
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.377
When I enable persistence 6.416
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.099
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 7.327
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.492
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.246
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.301
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.077
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.164
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.747
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 7.194
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.360
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 10.444
And all notifications have disappeared 7.826
# 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" 0.144
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.078
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.169
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.340
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.391
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 7.599
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.251
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.311
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.345
When I log in to a new session 10.432
And all notifications have disappeared 8.325
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.260
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000