Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6408 27 May 2026, 19:02

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 19:45.841 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.288
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 1:18.405
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.846
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.245
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.366
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 8.700
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.731
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.917
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.470
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.249
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.816
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.673
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.185
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.033
Tags: @product
27.521
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.381
And the system is very low on memory 3.366
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.177
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.448
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.089
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.365
And I free up some memory 0.833
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.800
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.335
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 enabled and logged in 8.400
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And all tps features are active 1.134
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.896
When I disable the first tps feature 2.578
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.167
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.397
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.349
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
12.686
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 enabled and logged in 7.386
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.470
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.660
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 7.131
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 2.504
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.843
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.177
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 7.152
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 9.251
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.267
When I write some files expected to persist 1.206
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.330
# 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" 11.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:37.906
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 7.225
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.477
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.110
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.363
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.378
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.650
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.451
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.116
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.049
Tags: @product
38.007
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.563
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 13.895
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:39.663
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 8.428
When I enable persistence 13.350
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.421
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.116
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
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" 4.487
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.302
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
When I cold reboot the computer 6.097
And the computer reboots Tails 35.074
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.339
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.203
Given I enable persistence 6.237
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.217
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.527
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
2:6.767
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 8.034
# 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 26.375
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.627
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.765
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
36.277
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 7.362
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.627
Then persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.228
And all notifications have disappeared 7.836
When I delete the persistent partition 2.793
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.978
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 7.767
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.399
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.547
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
39.671
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 7.480
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.618
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.180
And all notifications have disappeared 7.720
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.248
And all tps features are enabled 1.036
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:0.517
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 30.020
And I enable persistence 18.310
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.151
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.557
And persistence is enabled 1.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.434
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 6.991
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.932
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.819
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 7.801
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.711
When I enable persistence 6.585
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.386
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.687
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.169
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.194
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.544
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.191
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.935
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 8.062
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.793
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.353
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 10.710
And all notifications have disappeared 9.868
# 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" 0.161
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.434
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.160
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.361
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.521
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 7.532
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.582
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.309
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.761
When I log in to a new session 10.201
And all notifications have disappeared 7.938
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.285
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000