Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6346 02 May 2026, 11:16

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 21:29.745 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.411
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 1:18.133
And I update APT using apt 6.252
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.238
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.541
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 21.227
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.419
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.273
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.648
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 8.431
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.527
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.551
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.518
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.986
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
29.259
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 7.448
And the system is very low on memory 3.953
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.161
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.865
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.128
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.385
And I free up some memory 0.880
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.369
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.297
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 8.462
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.346
And all tps features are active 1.301
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.918
When I disable the first tps feature 2.484
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.899
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.686
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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12.704
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 7.229
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I disable the first tps feature 2.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.492
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.772
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 7.171
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.584
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.845
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.381
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 7.280
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 15.975
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.358
When I write some files expected to persist 1.209
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.615
# 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" 11.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:17.890
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 7.336
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 15.842
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.070
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.107
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 21.779
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.388
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
Tags: @product
40.330
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 8.459
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.070
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.959
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.480
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 8.727
When I enable persistence 16.027
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.746
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.401
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.319
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.238
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.487
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.860
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.257
When I cold reboot the computer 10.114
And the computer reboots Tails 37.146
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.283
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.193
Given I enable persistence 6.846
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.218
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.387
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:11.296
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 8.198
# 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 27.304
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.551
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.439
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
38.719
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 8.695
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.834
Then persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.104
And all notifications have disappeared 7.802
When I delete the persistent partition 2.696
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:18.742
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 7.928
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.762
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.672
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
41.585
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 8.391
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.434
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.046
And all notifications have disappeared 7.729
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.303
And all tps features are enabled 1.214
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.984
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 30.024
And I enable persistence 19.317
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.420
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.609
And persistence is enabled 1.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.226
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.036
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.642
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.953
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 8.157
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.211
When I enable persistence 6.771
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.013
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 8.013
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.558
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.358
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.283
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.144
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.171
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 8.146
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.246
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 0.043
When I log in to a new session 11.390
And all notifications have disappeared 8.792
# 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" 0.217
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.528
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.193
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.359
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.334
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 7.880
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.594
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.375
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.232
When I log in to a new session 10.886
And all notifications have disappeared 8.490
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.746
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000