Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6430 05 Jun 2026, 11:29

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 19:55.180 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.983
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 1:17.212
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.695
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.255
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.999
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.636
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.531
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.241
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:36.557
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 8.222
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.250
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.554
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.414
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.726
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.164
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.020
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27.425
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 7.250
And the system is very low on memory 3.162
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.147
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.541
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.135
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.381
And I free up some memory 0.817
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.938
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:29.277
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 7.898
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.359
And all tps features are active 1.348
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.467
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.145
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.346
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.416
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.044
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12.610
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 7.327
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.483
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.409
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.042
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.915
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 7.288
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.537
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.915
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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39.378
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 6.994
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.767
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.200
When I write some files expected to persist 1.198
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.291
# 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" 11.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:36.647
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 7.199
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.974
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.762
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.595
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.401
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.386
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.058
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38.184
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 8.520
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 13.555
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:43.470
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 8.395
When I enable persistence 12.751
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.665
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.216
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.269
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" 4.478
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.649
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.111
When I cold reboot the computer 8.638
And the computer reboots Tails 36.537
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.249
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.175
Given I enable persistence 6.705
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.204
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.996
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:11.608
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 7.909
# 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 30.753
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.326
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.247
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
36.618
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 8.028
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.323
Then persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.472
And all notifications have disappeared 7.645
When I delete the persistent partition 2.723
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:19.989
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 7.913
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.287
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.500
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.005
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39.150
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 7.491
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.728
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.653
And all notifications have disappeared 7.650
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.268
And all tps features are enabled 1.064
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:1.257
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 29.882
And I enable persistence 19.883
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.097
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.582
And persistence is enabled 1.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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22.120
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 6.911
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.677
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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25.164
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 8.095
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.669
When I enable persistence 6.619
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.996
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 7.393
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.285
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.293
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.380
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.156
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.909
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 7.227
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.901
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 11.027
And all notifications have disappeared 8.946
# 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" 0.134
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.078
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.146
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.272
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.917
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 7.558
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.175
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.290
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.955
When I log in to a new session 10.397
And all notifications have disappeared 8.276
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.399
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000