Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6415 01 Jun 2026, 15:11

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 21:43.428 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.241
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.238
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.736
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.316
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.000
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 8.898
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.477
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
And persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:42.834
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 8.887
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.391
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.126
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.686
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 9.756
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.690
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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30.547
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 logged in 8.011
And the system is very low on memory 3.567
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.172
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.907
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.111
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.452
And I free up some memory 0.955
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.319
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.113
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 8.594
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.457
And all tps features are active 1.347
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.539
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.165
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.490
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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13.480
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 7.756
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I disable the first tps feature 2.781
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.452
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 7.642
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.634
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.961
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
45.370
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 7.568
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 13.930
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.195
When I write some files expected to persist 1.286
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.434
# 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" 12.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:48.807
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 7.789
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 11.346
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.534
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.809
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.443
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.418
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.110
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.053
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42.861
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 9.277
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.074
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.897
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:52.598
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 9.079
When I enable persistence 14.283
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.914
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.607
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.349
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.519
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.337
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 10.478
And the computer reboots Tails 37.477
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.273
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.255
Given I enable persistence 8.470
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.103
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 9.587
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:18.241
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 8.430
# 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 25.915
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.579
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.799
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
40.918
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 8.917
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.374
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.119
And all notifications have disappeared 8.233
When I delete the persistent partition 2.779
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:26.710
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 8.219
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.900
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.266
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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46.022
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 8.986
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.241
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.037
And all notifications have disappeared 7.934
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.289
And all tps features are enabled 1.142
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:6.275
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 31.872
And I enable persistence 20.694
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.338
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.613
And persistence is enabled 1.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.380
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.015
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 7.693
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.001
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.477
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 8.802
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.742
When I enable persistence 8.098
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.560
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 8.033
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.646
When I try to enable persistence 1.352
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.627
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.383
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.186
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.341
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 8.209
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.733
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 12.761
And all notifications have disappeared 9.716
# 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" 0.218
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.667
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.232
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.494
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.190
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 8.026
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.586
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.331
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.245
When I log in to a new session 11.571
And all notifications have disappeared 9.882
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.595
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000