Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6349 04 May 2026, 14:01

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 23:44.057 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.208
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.650
And I update APT using apt 7.077
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.323
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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32.877
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 9.651
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.310
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
And persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:45.043
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 logged in 9.197
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.355
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.163
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.536
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.614
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.801
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.221
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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31.490
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.262
And the system is very low on memory 4.176
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.170
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.604
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.104
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.457
And I free up some memory 0.968
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.247
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:38.747
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 8.947
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.366
And all tps features are active 1.463
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.184
When I disable the first tps feature 3.057
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.186
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.231
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
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15.107
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 8.939
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.125
When I disable the first tps feature 3.173
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.535
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 7.668
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.594
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.079
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.168
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 8.036
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 18.066
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.233
When I write some files expected to persist 1.183
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.930
# 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" 13.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.838
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 8.103
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 17.774
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.535
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.939
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 42.676
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.377
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.083
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43.124
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 9.226
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.114
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.339
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:10.038
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 22.457
When I enable persistence 13.581
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.954
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.944
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.327
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.276
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.601
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.229
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 10.071
And the computer reboots Tails 40.595
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.354
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.254
Given I enable persistence 8.267
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.271
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.344
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:21.171
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 8.906
# 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 30.646
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.688
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.035
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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42.487
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 8.124
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.252
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.838
And all notifications have disappeared 9.009
When I delete the persistent partition 2.743
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.218
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 enabled and logged in 8.643
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.845
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.336
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
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47.401
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 8.559
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.416
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.538
And all notifications have disappeared 8.417
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.505
And all tps features are enabled 1.463
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.871
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.801
And I enable persistence 21.247
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.524
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.606
And persistence is enabled 1.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.270
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 8.105
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.483
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.346
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 8.804
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.277
When I enable persistence 7.129
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.858
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 9.176
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.939
When I try to enable persistence 1.328
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.872
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.853
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.152
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.085
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.366
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.649
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 13.198
And all notifications have disappeared 8.980
# 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" 0.212
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.711
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.200
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.548
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.165
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 9.728
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.488
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.380
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.688
When I log in to a new session 11.394
And all notifications have disappeared 9.442
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.906
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000