Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6353 05 May 2026, 13:25

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 22:44.848 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.626
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 1:23.486
And I update APT using apt 6.472
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.382
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.007
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 8.921
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.349
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
And persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.074
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 9.312
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.336
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.130
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.764
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.577
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.494
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.215
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product
29.188
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 7.623
And the system is very low on memory 3.919
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.207
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.778
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.182
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.418
And I free up some memory 1.009
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.987
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.692
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 8.480
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.422
And all tps features are active 1.330
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.533
When I disable the first tps feature 3.016
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.237
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.340
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.998
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
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14.230
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 8.011
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.087
When I disable the first tps feature 3.243
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.525
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.963
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.655
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 3.035
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.034
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.648
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.640
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 19.404
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.240
When I write some files expected to persist 1.283
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.875
# 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" 13.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:32.531
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 7.767
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 18.454
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.168
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.529
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.390
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 23.462
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.444
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.082
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.052
Tags: @product
41.530
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 9.083
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.888
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:53.222
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 9.483
When I enable persistence 16.430
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.905
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.850
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.326
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.237
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.555
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.526
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 6.302
And the computer reboots Tails 38.352
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.298
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.212
Given I enable persistence 8.269
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.310
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.745
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:18.313
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 8.403
# 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 28.505
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.585
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.019
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
40.923
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 8.979
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.196
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.386
And all notifications have disappeared 8.147
When I delete the persistent partition 2.653
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.404
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 7.940
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.974
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.128
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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46.688
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 8.717
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.353
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.433
And all notifications have disappeared 8.396
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.458
And all tps features are enabled 1.617
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.428
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 32.161
And I enable persistence 22.289
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.375
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.699
And persistence is enabled 1.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.851
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 7.588
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.453
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.978
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 8.514
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.067
When I enable persistence 7.255
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.583
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 7.799
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.464
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.503
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.162
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.077
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 8.072
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.648
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 0.029
When I log in to a new session 13.683
And all notifications have disappeared 9.093
# 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" 0.216
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.704
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.511
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.799
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.881
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 8.196
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.653
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.349
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.217
When I log in to a new session 10.750
And all notifications have disappeared 9.577
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.030
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000