Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6359 08 May 2026, 11:20

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 22:42.444 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.492
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 1:22.521
And I update APT using apt 6.385
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.417
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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33.586
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.298
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.697
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.250
And persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.334
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 9.236
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.922
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.483
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.787
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.116
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.296
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
28.936
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.833
And the system is very low on memory 3.595
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.174
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.651
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.122
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.441
And I free up some memory 0.962
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.082
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 8.750
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 1.335
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.242
When I disable the first tps feature 3.027
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.225
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.009
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.886
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.343
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 7.763
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.081
When I disable the first tps feature 2.685
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.454
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.418
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 7.578
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.713
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.930
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.570
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 7.576
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.633
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.231
When I write some files expected to persist 1.313
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.575
# 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" 13.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:28.093
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 7.764
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 17.137
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.124
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.030
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 22.228
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.432
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
Tags: @product
43.192
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.508
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.158
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.657
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.797
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 8.964
When I enable persistence 14.683
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.112
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.152
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.332
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.564
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.310
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
When I cold reboot the computer 10.703
And the computer reboots Tails 40.521
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.256
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.194
Given I enable persistence 8.329
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.094
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.253
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.687
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:13.289
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 9.130
# 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 27.526
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.848
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.301
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
38.656
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 8.331
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.335
Then persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.790
And all notifications have disappeared 7.998
When I delete the persistent partition 2.684
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.929
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 8.087
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.482
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.047
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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46.548
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 8.173
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.254
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.644
And all notifications have disappeared 8.405
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.299
And all tps features are enabled 1.397
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.945
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 32.655
And I enable persistence 20.699
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.150
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.729
And persistence is enabled 1.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.694
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 7.684
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.368
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.042
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 8.206
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.064
When I enable persistence 6.906
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.426
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 7.627
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.114
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.578
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.476
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.140
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.706
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 7.691
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.443
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 12.257
And all notifications have disappeared 8.813
# 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" 0.331
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.127
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.202
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.460
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.355
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 7.603
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.027
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.418
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.112
When I log in to a new session 10.648
And all notifications have disappeared 8.948
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.499
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000