Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6367 11 May 2026, 12:08

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 21:49.935 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.468
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.962
And I update APT using apt 7.190
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.363
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.793
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.766
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.310
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.239
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:43.107
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 8.525
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.894
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.418
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.717
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.906
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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28.527
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 7.336
And the system is very low on memory 3.466
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.152
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.266
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.117
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.394
And I free up some memory 0.866
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.878
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.244
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 8.614
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
And all tps features are active 1.171
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.022
When I disable the first tps feature 2.537
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.977
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.399
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
13.709
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 7.555
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.150
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.164
When I disable the first tps feature 2.998
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.496
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.131
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 7.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.552
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.872
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.311
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 7.373
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 17.077
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.360
When I write some files expected to persist 1.194
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.938
# 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" 12.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:20.922
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 7.949
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 16.097
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.204
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.097
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 22.767
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.422
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
39.746
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.744
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.151
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:54.683
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 8.771
When I enable persistence 16.344
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.667
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.423
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.329
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.294
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.494
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.492
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
When I cold reboot the computer 10.188
And the computer reboots Tails 37.576
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.260
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
Given I enable persistence 8.801
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.291
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.099
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:13.747
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 8.450
# 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 29.848
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.518
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.989
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
38.435
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 8.142
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.168
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.071
And all notifications have disappeared 7.815
When I delete the persistent partition 2.780
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.853
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 7.907
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.917
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.722
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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42.464
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 7.890
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.651
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.324
And all notifications have disappeared 7.878
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.302
And all tps features are enabled 1.010
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.539
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 30.661
And I enable persistence 20.662
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.730
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.661
And persistence is enabled 1.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.342
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 7.488
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.276
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.545
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 8.275
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.377
When I enable persistence 7.118
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.942
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 7.425
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.093
When I try to enable persistence 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.319
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.370
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.183
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.104
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 7.796
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.749
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.669
And all notifications have disappeared 9.022
# 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" 0.200
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.090
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.425
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.595
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.314
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 7.656
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.470
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.308
When I try to enable persistence 1.451
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.173
When I log in to a new session 11.089
And all notifications have disappeared 9.583
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.926
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000