Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6368 11 May 2026, 20:26

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 22:27.367 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.371
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 1:21.803
And I update APT using apt 6.272
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.269
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.432
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.101
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.148
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.927
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 8.880
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.399
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.132
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.467
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.975
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.702
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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30.191
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 7.873
And the system is very low on memory 3.259
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.653
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.475
And I free up some memory 0.938
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.191
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.511
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 8.460
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.330
And all tps features are active 1.372
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.258
When I disable the first tps feature 3.041
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.256
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.773
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.491
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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13.866
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 8.250
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.565
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.566
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.473
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 7.736
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I disable the first tps feature 2.649
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.875
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.437
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 7.645
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 16.734
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.535
When I write some files expected to persist 1.662
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.375
# 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" 12.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.780
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 8.213
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 19.872
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.186
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.668
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.937
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.139
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.480
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.115
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.063
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41.104
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 9.003
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.147
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.538
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.100
When I enable persistence 14.119
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.744
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.742
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.400
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.289
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.539
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.938
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 6.437
And the computer reboots Tails 39.614
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.277
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.178
Given I enable persistence 8.940
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.098
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.293
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.511
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:17.201
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 8.973
# 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 26.026
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.474
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.217
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
39.708
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 8.853
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.867
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.913
And all notifications have disappeared 7.735
When I delete the persistent partition 2.825
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.969
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 8.846
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.523
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.256
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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43.840
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 8.077
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.469
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.216
And all notifications have disappeared 8.125
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.404
And all tps features are enabled 1.116
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.906
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 31.753
And I enable persistence 20.235
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.498
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.593
And persistence is enabled 1.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.409
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 7.846
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.875
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.906
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.969
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.165
When I enable persistence 7.990
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.643
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 7.915
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.401
When I try to enable persistence 1.255
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.904
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.624
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.084
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.211
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.560
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 8.280
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.061
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I log in to a new session 13.419
And all notifications have disappeared 9.786
# 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" 0.178
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.716
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.210
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.572
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.587
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 7.962
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.465
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.429
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.166
When I log in to a new session 11.058
And all notifications have disappeared 9.013
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.503
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 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000