Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6440 11 Jun 2026, 13:39

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 22:25.732 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:41.444
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 1:23.814
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.949
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.488
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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31.481
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.140
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.260
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.255
And persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:53.254
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 9.621
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.681
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.986
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.239
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.177
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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32.659
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 7.781
And the system is very low on memory 3.891
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.261
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.124
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 2.441
And I free up some memory 1.014
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.963
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:40.240
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 8.534
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.407
And all tps features are active 1.285
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.756
When I disable the first tps feature 3.123
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.410
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.801
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.488
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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14.187
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 7.894
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 3.290
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.579
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.529
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 7.810
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.568
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.968
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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46.091
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 8.150
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 12.298
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.243
When I write some files expected to persist 1.682
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.090
# 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" 13.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:51.972
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.919
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.977
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.196
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.907
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.094
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 12.147
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.455
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.090
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.068
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44.482
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 10.167
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.106
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.891
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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3:0.180
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.484
When I enable persistence 14.424
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.106
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.920
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.498
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.578
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.552
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.866
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
When I cold reboot the computer 10.048
And the computer reboots Tails 39.350
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.452
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.242
Given I enable persistence 8.697
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.216
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.294
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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2:14.773
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 enabled and logged in 8.785
# 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 27.513
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.157
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.965
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.022
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39.600
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 8.139
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.236
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.964
And all notifications have disappeared 7.912
When I delete the persistent partition 2.842
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:30.330
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 8.715
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.081
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.725
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.556
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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46.850
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 7.954
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.127
When I try to enable persistence 1.438
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.585
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.942
And all notifications have disappeared 8.042
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.301
And all tps features are enabled 1.191
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:9.944
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 32.219
And I enable persistence 22.240
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.906
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.686
And persistence is enabled 1.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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23.705
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 7.195
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.886
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.678
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 9.109
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.067
When I enable persistence 7.284
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.978
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.585
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.574
When I try to enable persistence 1.484
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.874
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.644
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.184
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.778
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 8.097
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.380
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.038
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 14.708
And all notifications have disappeared 9.748
# 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" 0.140
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.452
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.229
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.859
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.567
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 8.162
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.856
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.057
When I log in to a new session 11.601
And all notifications have disappeared 9.822
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.775
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000