Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6369 11 May 2026, 21:20

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 21:39.955 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.484
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 1:20.659
And I update APT using apt 6.548
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.221
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.972
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 8.706
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.796
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.422
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.709
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 8.502
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.902
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.446
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.842
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.344
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.203
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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28.834
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 7.606
And the system is very low on memory 3.395
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.169
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.604
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.109
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.554
And I free up some memory 0.908
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.427
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.753
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 8.287
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.365
And all tps features are active 1.309
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.384
When I disable the first tps feature 3.054
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.159
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.882
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.065
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
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13.635
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 7.509
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.119
When I disable the first tps feature 3.097
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.561
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.141
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 7.514
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.539
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.895
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.927
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 7.247
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 16.316
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.222
When I write some files expected to persist 1.491
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.898
# 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" 12.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:23.871
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 7.250
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 16.516
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.295
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.142
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.944
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.337
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
Tags: @product
39.453
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 8.591
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.129
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.286
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:48.111
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 9.222
When I enable persistence 13.386
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.881
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.493
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.316
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.331
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.479
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.927
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 6.527
And the computer reboots Tails 37.231
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.325
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.178
Given I enable persistence 7.098
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.231
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.083
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:13.017
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 8.335
# 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 28.715
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.802
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.161
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
38.301
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 8.512
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.467
Then persistence is disabled 0.192
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.365
And all notifications have disappeared 7.712
When I delete the persistent partition 2.730
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.142
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 7.974
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.400
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.362
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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43.084
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 7.818
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.458
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.691
And all notifications have disappeared 8.137
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.282
And all tps features are enabled 1.280
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.067
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 31.940
And I enable persistence 20.105
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.949
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.518
And persistence is enabled 1.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.541
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 7.083
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.901
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.161
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 9.154
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.847
When I enable persistence 7.255
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.449
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 7.932
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.444
When I try to enable persistence 1.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.627
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.586
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.193
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.792
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 7.865
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.815
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 11.402
And all notifications have disappeared 10.339
# 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" 0.210
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.395
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.179
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.226
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.501
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 7.790
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.612
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.331
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.376
When I log in to a new session 11.876
And all notifications have disappeared 7.983
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.452
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000