Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6401 24 May 2026, 11:24

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 19:52.532 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.859
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.013
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.601
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.260
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.229
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.209
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.077
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.097
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.229
And persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.222
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.257
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.249
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.497
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.010
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.824
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.191
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
27.433
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.285
And the system is very low on memory 3.043
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.187
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.693
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.090
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.370
And I free up some memory 0.837
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.875
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.977
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.070
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.255
And all tps features are active 1.190
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.957
When I disable the first tps feature 2.457
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.205
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.634
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.147
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
12.763
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.335
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.503
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.142
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.438
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.841
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.159
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I disable the first tps feature 2.497
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.983
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
37.456
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.156
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.472
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.292
When I write some files expected to persist 1.240
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.623
# 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? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 11.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.334
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.076
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 10.380
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.349
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.027
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 12.691
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.423
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.059
Tags: @product
37.764
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.536
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.986
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:44.203
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.608
When I enable persistence 12.549
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.600
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.151
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.261
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.209
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.469
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.827
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
When I cold reboot the computer 10.024
And the computer reboots Tails 35.662
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.296
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.159
Given I enable persistence 6.797
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.089
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.225
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.001
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.026
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2:6.212
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.934
# 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 25.993
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.238
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.153
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
37.873
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.175
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.116
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.597
And all notifications have disappeared 7.778
When I delete the persistent partition 2.780
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:17.315
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.970
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.847
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.178
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.034
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39.249
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.815
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.037
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.947
And all notifications have disappeared 7.827
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.285
And all tps features are enabled 1.022
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:4.314
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 31.680
And I enable persistence 20.505
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.945
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.582
And persistence is enabled 1.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.291
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.050
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.706
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.478
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.218
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.703
When I enable persistence 6.670
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.070
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.040
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.020
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.097
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.332
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.155
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.998
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.373
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.561
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 10.259
And all notifications have disappeared 8.907
# 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" 0.253
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.109
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.284
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.657
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.271
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.480
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.839
When I log in to a new session 9.947
And all notifications have disappeared 7.753
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.201
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000