Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6421 03 Jun 2026, 11:43

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 22:19.795 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.899
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 1:22.820
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.802
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.278
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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31.414
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 8.848
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.134
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.240
And persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:56.821
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 22.177
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.136
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.536
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.896
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.168
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.414
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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31.006
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 8.196
And the system is very low on memory 3.746
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.150
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.961
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.159
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.492
And I free up some memory 0.917
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.331
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.345
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.015
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.346
And all tps features are active 1.367
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.399
When I disable the first tps feature 2.685
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.604
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.114
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.529
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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14.593
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 8.425
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 3.142
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.573
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.767
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 7.567
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.578
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.408
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
45.999
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 8.077
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 13.040
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.254
When I write some files expected to persist 1.382
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.692
# 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" 13.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:55.614
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 7.594
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 11.326
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.664
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.801
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.261
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.098
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.055
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44.536
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 9.250
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.115
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.918
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:54.579
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 9.237
When I enable persistence 14.068
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.965
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.752
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.310
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.591
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.093
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.188
When I cold reboot the computer 7.410
And the computer reboots Tails 39.388
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.329
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.211
Given I enable persistence 7.378
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.256
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.823
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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2:10.119
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 8.318
# 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 25.759
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.807
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.560
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
42.483
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 9.273
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.752
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.168
And all notifications have disappeared 8.194
When I delete the persistent partition 3.472
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:27.868
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.412
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.502
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.642
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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44.255
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 7.748
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.453
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.464
And all notifications have disappeared 8.258
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.327
And all tps features are enabled 1.358
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:12.183
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 35.353
And I enable persistence 21.309
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.769
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.723
And persistence is enabled 2.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.781
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.012
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 7.398
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.839
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.958
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 9.238
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.748
When I enable persistence 7.803
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
28.897
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 8.354
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.916
When I try to enable persistence 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.724
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.949
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.076
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.189
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.902
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 8.465
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.245
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.040
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I log in to a new session 13.246
And all notifications have disappeared 9.520
# 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" 0.367
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.554
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.372
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.998
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.765
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 8.561
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.324
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.381
When I try to enable persistence 1.314
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.993
When I log in to a new session 11.118
And all notifications have disappeared 9.649
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.520
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000