Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6432 07 Jun 2026, 07:21

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 19:32.238 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.061
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.958
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.011
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.270
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.077
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 8.557
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.557
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:34.359
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 8.173
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.335
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.145
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.371
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.930
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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27.182
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 7.313
And the system is very low on memory 2.900
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.574
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.103
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.409
And I free up some memory 0.859
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.813
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:27.037
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 8.051
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And all tps features are active 1.236
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.867
When I disable the first tps feature 2.482
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.168
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.313
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.519
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
12.869
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.038
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.474
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.538
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.423
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.704
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 7.109
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
And I disable the first tps feature 2.458
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.965
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
38.076
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 7.155
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 8.287
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.166
When I write some files expected to persist 1.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.322
# 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" 11.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:33.377
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 7.130
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.813
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.430
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.490
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 10.808
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.391
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.052
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37.138
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 8.493
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.423
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:43.062
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 8.432
When I enable persistence 11.883
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.606
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.347
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.330
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.199
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.477
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.893
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 10.258
And the computer reboots Tails 35.723
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.236
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.176
Given I enable persistence 6.860
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.211
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.994
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:2.633
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 8.098
# 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 26.462
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.069
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.304
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
36.019
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 7.814
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.303
Then persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.326
And all notifications have disappeared 7.495
When I delete the persistent partition 2.653
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:17.181
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 7.470
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.258
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.185
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
39.934
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 7.447
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.083
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.156
And all notifications have disappeared 7.631
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.253
And all tps features are enabled 0.978
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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59.339
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 28.943
And I enable persistence 18.608
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.572
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.516
And persistence is enabled 1.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.205
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 6.914
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.728
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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25.003
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 7.945
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.361
When I enable persistence 6.880
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.457
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 7.494
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.634
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.292
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.435
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.148
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.801
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 7.352
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.250
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.217
And all notifications have disappeared 8.927
# 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" 0.122
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.338
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.176
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.258
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.713
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 7.344
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.120
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.318
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.472
When I log in to a new session 9.938
And all notifications have disappeared 8.215
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.363
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000