Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6413 01 Jun 2026, 11:23

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 20:13.318 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.157
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.970
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.055
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.238
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.238
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 8.827
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.832
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.298
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.579
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 7.864
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.365
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.422
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.600
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.928
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.206
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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29.185
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 7.303
And the system is very low on memory 3.992
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.287
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.207
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.117
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.437
And I free up some memory 0.798
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.985
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:31.655
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 8.323
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 1.206
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.186
When I disable the first tps feature 2.472
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.012
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.818
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.025
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12.831
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 7.309
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.601
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.784
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 7.256
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I disable the first tps feature 2.492
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.861
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.844
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 7.359
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.885
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.349
When I write some files expected to persist 1.202
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.288
# 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" 11.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.579
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 7.349
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.568
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.496
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.998
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 11.372
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.404
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.098
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.037
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37.413
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.699
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.083
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.365
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:46.520
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 8.708
When I enable persistence 14.180
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.877
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.385
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.318
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.224
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.504
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.845
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.259
When I cold reboot the computer 8.738
And the computer reboots Tails 35.991
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.290
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.197
Given I enable persistence 6.861
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.290
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.600
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:8.102
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 8.123
# 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 28.621
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.556
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.292
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
37.243
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 8.013
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.203
Then persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.118
And all notifications have disappeared 7.849
When I delete the persistent partition 2.654
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:20.733
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 7.698
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.357
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.423
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.028
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39.878
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 7.915
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.041
When I try to enable persistence 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.452
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.212
And all notifications have disappeared 7.765
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.289
And all tps features are enabled 1.021
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:1.538
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 29.887
And I enable persistence 19.434
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.194
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.512
And persistence is enabled 1.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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22.209
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 6.968
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.655
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.823
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 8.399
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.511
When I enable persistence 7.019
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.276
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 7.603
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.327
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.395
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.532
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.136
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.273
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 7.425
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.055
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.696
And all notifications have disappeared 8.831
# 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" 0.201
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.380
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.321
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.447
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 7.790
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.559
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.334
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.656
When I log in to a new session 10.029
And all notifications have disappeared 8.704
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.323
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000