Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6411 30 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 19:43.798 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.704
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 1:17.603
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.107
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.213
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.830
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 8.635
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.907
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.252
And persistence is disabled 0.155
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:33.999
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 8.159
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.273
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.327
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.438
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.390
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.206
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.014
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28.718
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 7.705
And the system is very low on memory 3.409
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.814
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.104
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.393
And I free up some memory 1.058
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:23.952
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 8.112
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
And all tps features are active 1.124
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.132
When I disable the first tps feature 2.521
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.726
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.828
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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12.752
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 7.308
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.501
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.514
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.730
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 7.065
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.042
And I disable the first tps feature 2.542
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.936
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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39.384
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6.999
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.856
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.173
When I write some files expected to persist 1.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.272
# 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" 11.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.769
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 7.158
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 8.153
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.138
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.311
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.435
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.002
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.383
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.081
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38.642
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 8.396
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 13.639
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:45.550
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 8.423
When I enable persistence 12.538
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.732
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.463
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.212
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.542
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.127
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
When I cold reboot the computer 10.111
And the computer reboots Tails 36.290
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.237
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.212
Given I enable persistence 6.922
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.229
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.869
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:8.183
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 7.467
# 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 27.541
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.517
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.655
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
38.040
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 8.002
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.942
Then persistence is disabled 0.128
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.155
And all notifications have disappeared 7.773
When I delete the persistent partition 2.673
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:13.020
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 7.266
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.433
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.056
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
39.669
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 7.608
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.930
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.620
And all notifications have disappeared 7.865
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.251
And all tps features are enabled 0.987
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:2.506
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 31.650
And I enable persistence 18.952
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.937
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.583
And persistence is enabled 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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22.328
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 7.008
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.800
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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24.082
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 8.133
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.481
When I enable persistence 6.697
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.946
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 7.494
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.362
When I try to enable persistence 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.143
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.403
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.144
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.791
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 7.448
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.712
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.140
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.500
And all notifications have disappeared 8.028
# 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" 0.245
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.099
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.233
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.281
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.196
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 7.204
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.603
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.371
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.789
When I log in to a new session 10.241
And all notifications have disappeared 7.792
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.329
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000