Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6439 11 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 21:36.921 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.015
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.472
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.271
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.283
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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32.025
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 9.853
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.379
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.412
And persistence is disabled 0.139
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.789
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.472
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.358
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.081
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.270
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.078
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.278
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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31.963
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 8.389
And the system is very low on memory 3.713
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.330
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.851
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.112
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.403
And I free up some memory 0.936
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.173
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.226
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 8.270
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.527
And all tps features are active 1.721
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.330
When I disable the first tps feature 3.016
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.285
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.594
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.048
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.022
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14.672
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 7.897
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 3.154
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.132
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.085
When I enable the first tps feature 3.123
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.368
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 7.448
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.665
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.053
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.507
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 8.088
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 14.327
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.270
When I write some files expected to persist 1.559
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.195
# 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" 13.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:42.905
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 7.862
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 8.729
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.166
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.928
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.995
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 11.560
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.439
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.050
Tags: @product
43.874
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 9.154
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.123
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.875
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:53.560
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 9.009
When I enable persistence 14.695
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.124
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.662
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.357
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.295
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.551
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.974
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
When I cold reboot the computer 9.350
And the computer reboots Tails 38.157
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.321
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.267
Given I enable persistence 7.043
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.240
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.122
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.015
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2:8.878
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 8.777
# 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 24.989
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.410
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.220
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
42.110
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 9.097
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.554
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.676
And all notifications have disappeared 8.325
When I delete the persistent partition 2.915
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:26.540
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 8.308
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.098
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.600
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.202
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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44.825
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 8.054
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.095
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.596
And all notifications have disappeared 8.190
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.349
And all tps features are enabled 1.075
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:5.493
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 31.982
And I enable persistence 20.474
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.840
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.569
And persistence is enabled 1.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.182
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 7.649
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.189
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.924
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 8.720
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.962
When I enable persistence 7.217
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.892
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 8.049
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.376
When I try to enable persistence 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.239
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.462
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.185
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.968
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 8.451
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.454
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.878
And all notifications have disappeared 9.410
# 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" 0.182
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.544
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.233
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.450
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.971
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 7.975
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.061
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.382
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.981
When I log in to a new session 12.111
And all notifications have disappeared 9.129
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.424
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000