Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6436 09 Jun 2026, 11:34

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 21:14.624 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.532
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 1:17.299
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.024
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.284
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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31.197
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 9.103
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.477
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.515
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 8.483
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.363
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.127
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.746
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.593
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.903
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
30.262
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 7.588
And the system is very low on memory 3.988
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.852
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.099
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.346
And I free up some memory 0.861
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.286
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.341
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 8.602
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.359
And all tps features are active 1.244
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.158
When I disable the first tps feature 3.001
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.564
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.665
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
12.938
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 7.624
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 2.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.411
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.940
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 7.412
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.522
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.826
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
41.298
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 7.270
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.243
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.191
When I write some files expected to persist 1.348
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.396
# 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" 12.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:45.805
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 7.318
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.735
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.178
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.475
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.782
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.665
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.410
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.051
Tags: @product
44.454
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 8.965
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.146
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.663
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:55.993
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 9.180
When I enable persistence 14.739
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.969
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.714
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.561
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.298
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.565
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.953
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
When I cold reboot the computer 10.600
And the computer reboots Tails 39.149
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.279
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.192
Given I enable persistence 7.725
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.234
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.360
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:16.124
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 8.171
# 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 30.428
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.486
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.767
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.027
Tags: @product
39.433
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 8.042
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.002
Then persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.273
And all notifications have disappeared 7.839
When I delete the persistent partition 2.770
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:23.615
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 8.089
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.416
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.818
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.015
Tags: @product
42.412
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 7.905
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.289
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.154
And all notifications have disappeared 7.952
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.326
And all tps features are enabled 1.224
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:5.647
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.569
And I enable persistence 19.773
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.109
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.603
And persistence is enabled 1.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.273
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 7.549
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.153
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.218
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 8.110
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.042
When I enable persistence 7.052
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.419
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 7.564
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.159
When I try to enable persistence 1.353
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.376
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.504
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.098
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 7.790
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.502
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 10.585
And all notifications have disappeared 9.571
# 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" 0.214
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.539
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.195
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.314
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.100
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 7.614
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.950
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.352
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.031
When I log in to a new session 12.336
And all notifications have disappeared 9.304
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.510
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000