Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6355 06 May 2026, 11:17

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 21:15.250 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.863
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.827
And I update APT using apt 5.842
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.273
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.357
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 8.332
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.831
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.254
And persistence is disabled 0.147
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.831
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 8.254
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.323
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.550
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.484
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.410
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.475
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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28.956
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 7.568
And the system is very low on memory 4.048
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.255
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.666
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.157
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.345
And I free up some memory 1.030
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.835
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.487
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 enabled and logged in 8.703
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
And all tps features are active 1.274
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.001
When I disable the first tps feature 2.511
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.988
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.516
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
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12.714
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 7.270
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.138
When I disable the first tps feature 2.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.475
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.801
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 7.138
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.118
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I disable the first tps feature 2.461
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.889
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.864
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 7.187
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 16.542
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.312
When I write some files expected to persist 1.293
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.614
# 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" 11.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:18.831
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 7.192
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 15.815
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.789
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.934
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 22.398
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
Tags: @product
38.527
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.520
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.099
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.696
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:49.844
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 8.822
When I enable persistence 13.173
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.554
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.215
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.284
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.210
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.513
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.548
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 10.207
And the computer reboots Tails 37.966
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.249
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
Given I enable persistence 7.510
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.082
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.222
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.786
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:13.999
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 8.145
# 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 28.980
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.160
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.842
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
37.991
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 8.104
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.763
Then persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.088
And all notifications have disappeared 7.949
When I delete the persistent partition 2.679
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:23.435
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 7.508
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.040
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.693
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.961
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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41.251
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 7.590
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.341
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.984
And all notifications have disappeared 7.668
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.256
And all tps features are enabled 1.015
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.087
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 30.750
And I enable persistence 20.556
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.134
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.755
And persistence is enabled 1.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.496
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 7.201
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.719
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.024
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 7.872
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.953
When I enable persistence 6.528
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.026
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 7.703
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.193
When I try to enable persistence 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.092
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.338
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.160
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.955
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 8.292
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.676
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I log in to a new session 11.164
And all notifications have disappeared 9.251
# 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" 0.251
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.453
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.151
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.326
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.902
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 7.635
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.495
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.335
When I try to enable persistence 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.797
When I log in to a new session 10.955
And all notifications have disappeared 8.217
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.480
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000