Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6433 07 Jun 2026, 11:37

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 21:5.929 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.496
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 1:20.596
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.632
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.337
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.464
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.725
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.903
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.240
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.476
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 8.897
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.387
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.163
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.261
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.103
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.598
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.862
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
30.191
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 7.852
And the system is very low on memory 3.643
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.126
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.706
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.100
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.375
And I free up some memory 0.783
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.530
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.637
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 8.038
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
And all tps features are active 1.314
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.149
When I disable the first tps feature 2.510
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.183
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.079
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.769
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
12.938
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 7.553
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.497
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.491
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.409
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 7.840
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.540
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.862
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.084
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 7.395
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 13.515
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.169
When I write some files expected to persist 1.236
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.423
# 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" 12.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.291
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 7.471
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 10.887
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.145
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.595
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.120
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.045
And Tor is ready 11.398
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.390
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.062
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51.634
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 21.536
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.520
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:46.459
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 8.713
When I enable persistence 12.495
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.685
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.396
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.359
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.238
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.523
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.065
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.182
When I cold reboot the computer 10.386
And the computer reboots Tails 36.151
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.284
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.215
Given I enable persistence 7.400
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.238
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.828
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:8.148
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 8.432
# 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 24.766
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.446
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.221
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
37.950
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 7.594
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.763
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.916
And all notifications have disappeared 8.382
When I delete the persistent partition 2.817
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:22.855
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 7.566
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.671
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.333
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
43.819
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 8.041
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.792
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.412
And all notifications have disappeared 7.644
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.304
And all tps features are enabled 1.191
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:6.334
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 33.339
And I enable persistence 20.767
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.819
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.640
And persistence is enabled 1.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.406
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 7.107
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.685
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.599
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 8.091
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.179
When I enable persistence 6.635
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.057
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 8.225
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.949
When I try to enable persistence 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.231
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.426
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.159
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.373
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 8.106
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.107
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 11.064
And all notifications have disappeared 10.387
# 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" 0.222
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.460
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.231
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 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.298
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 7.873
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.534
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.299
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.976
When I log in to a new session 12.066
And all notifications have disappeared 8.392
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.293
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000