Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6356 07 May 2026, 07:08

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 20:32.110 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.423
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 1:16.997
And I update APT using apt 6.334
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.244
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.965
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 8.503
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.339
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.480
And persistence is disabled 0.150
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.324
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 8.430
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.359
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.481
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.437
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.719
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.538
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.207
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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27.775
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 7.392
And the system is very low on memory 3.414
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.175
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.350
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.147
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.388
And I free up some memory 0.879
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.966
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.603
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 8.061
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
And all tps features are active 1.322
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.935
When I disable the first tps feature 2.510
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.099
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.315
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.014
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
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13.113
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 7.598
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.112
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.529
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.555
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.674
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 7.051
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.611
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.822
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.379
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 7.118
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 16.355
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.305
When I write some files expected to persist 1.206
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.721
# 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" 11.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:18.344
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 7.528
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 16.339
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.190
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.707
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.370
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 22.613
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.366
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.047
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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38.264
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.249
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.069
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.439
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:39.270
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 8.421
When I enable persistence 12.106
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.766
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.333
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.298
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.508
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.758
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 6.099
And the computer reboots Tails 35.780
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.285
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.197
Given I enable persistence 6.864
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.254
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.007
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:7.033
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 8.207
# 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 27.540
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.186
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.785
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product
37.565
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 8.222
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.123
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.402
And all notifications have disappeared 7.609
When I delete the persistent partition 2.668
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.068
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 7.205
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.325
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.243
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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39.050
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 7.948
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.924
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.152
And all notifications have disappeared 7.431
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.330
And all tps features are enabled 1.035
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.809
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 29.873
And I enable persistence 18.954
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.794
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.530
And persistence is enabled 1.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.025
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 7.008
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.510
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.960
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 8.103
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.535
When I enable persistence 6.712
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.213
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 7.571
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.601
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.107
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.393
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.136
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.173
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 7.301
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.134
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.614
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.899
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" 0.180
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.383
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.169
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.225
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.071
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 7.629
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.324
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.323
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.673
When I log in to a new session 10.228
And all notifications have disappeared 8.668
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.323
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000