Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6402 25 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 19:46.719 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.563
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.596
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.919
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.249
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.994
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 8.482
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.509
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.238
And persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.960
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 8.451
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.840
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.325
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.614
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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28.174
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 7.645
And the system is very low on memory 3.454
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.181
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.468
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 2.380
And I free up some memory 0.844
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.044
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.775
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 8.156
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.266
And all tps features are active 1.072
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.099
When I disable the first tps feature 2.505
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.596
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.000
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.018
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12.687
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 7.294
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.423
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.602
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 7.024
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.481
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.897
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
37.800
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 7.095
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 8.406
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.164
When I write some files expected to persist 1.162
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.408
# 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" 11.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.401
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 7.189
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 9.545
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.111
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.294
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.402
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.285
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.374
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.060
Tags: @product
37.279
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.611
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.098
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.633
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:43.107
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 8.617
When I enable persistence 11.461
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.813
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.381
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.308
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.246
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.493
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.500
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.129
When I cold reboot the computer 8.807
And the computer reboots Tails 36.045
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.272
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.239
Given I enable persistence 6.867
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.203
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.517
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:4.046
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 8.136
# 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 23.703
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.219
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.689
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
36.918
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.076
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.516
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.368
And all notifications have disappeared 7.704
When I delete the persistent partition 2.771
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:20.608
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 8.007
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.434
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.887
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
39.623
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.336
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.137
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.111
And all notifications have disappeared 7.567
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.230
And all tps features are enabled 0.962
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:1.207
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 28.863
And I enable persistence 20.595
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.686
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.613
And persistence is enabled 1.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.386
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 6.910
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.996
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.911
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 7.752
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.526
When I enable persistence 5.869
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.897
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.521
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.382
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.047
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.133
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.417
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.150
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.593
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 7.417
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.632
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I log in to a new session 11.358
And all notifications have disappeared 8.979
# 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" 0.267
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.383
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.157
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.286
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.181
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 7.607
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.711
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.370
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.091
When I log in to a new session 9.626
And all notifications have disappeared 8.409
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.324
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000