Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6414 01 Jun 2026, 14:42

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 20:14.705 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.354
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 1:18.636
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.645
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.260
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.132
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 8.610
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.281
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.263
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.818
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.483
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.531
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 9.347
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.822
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.169
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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28.253
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 7.320
And the system is very low on memory 4.002
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.177
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.372
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 2.453
And I free up some memory 0.903
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.892
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:28.492
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 7.953
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.384
And all tps features are active 1.103
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.472
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.985
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.297
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.920
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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12.888
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 7.462
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.514
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.125
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.420
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.720
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 7.119
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.537
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.890
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.461
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 7.053
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.591
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.200
When I write some files expected to persist 1.254
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.346
# 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" 11.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:41.489
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 7.117
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.924
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.347
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.087
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.271
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.382
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.042
Tags: @product
38.742
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 8.167
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.064
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.052
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:44.055
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 8.510
When I enable persistence 13.778
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.702
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.295
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.283
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.512
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.826
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
When I cold reboot the computer 6.208
And the computer reboots Tails 36.525
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.257
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.244
Given I enable persistence 7.171
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.201
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.968
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:10.817
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 7.998
# 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 29.970
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.369
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.353
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.023
Tags: @product
38.093
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 8.389
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.888
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.684
And all notifications have disappeared 7.836
When I delete the persistent partition 2.804
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:20.951
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 8.157
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.087
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.348
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.103
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.023
Tags: @product
40.182
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 7.722
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.917
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.183
And all notifications have disappeared 7.675
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.249
And all tps features are enabled 1.157
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:2.032
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 29.914
And I enable persistence 19.787
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.925
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.724
And persistence is enabled 1.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.355
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 6.934
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.896
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.986
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 8.118
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.114
When I enable persistence 6.721
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.367
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 8.243
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.498
When I try to enable persistence 1.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.543
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.407
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.163
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.712
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 7.673
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.387
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.054
And all notifications have disappeared 9.019
# 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" 0.343
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.542
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.198
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.274
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.797
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 7.562
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.055
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.376
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.199
When I log in to a new session 11.753
And all notifications have disappeared 8.625
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.297
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000