Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6441 11 Jun 2026, 14:09

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 23:46.260 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.604
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.022
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:25.121
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.390
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.239
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.471
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.521
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.932
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
And persistence is disabled 0.160
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.372
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.646
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.404
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.142
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.699
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.113
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.968
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.249
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
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30.980
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.227
And the system is very low on memory 3.354
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.832
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.101
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.950
And I free up some memory 0.932
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.363
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:58.527
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.078
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.474
And all tps features are active 6.054
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.225
When I disable the first tps feature 2.616
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.554
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.315
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.659
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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13.799
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.118
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.124
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 2.682
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.081
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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14.192
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.038
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.900
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I disable the first tps feature 3.026
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.049
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.113
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.063
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 13.334
And I take note of which tps features are available 5.037
When I write some files expected to persist 1.176
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.815
# 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" 13.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:58.090
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.986
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.955
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.192
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.807
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.125
And I capture all network traffic 0.042
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.163
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.505
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.108
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.080
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42.228
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.059
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.076
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.467
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:11.151
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.024
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.750
When I enable persistence 19.565
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.874
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.071
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.338
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.264
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.540
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.452
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.239
When I cold reboot the computer 9.773
And the computer reboots Tails 39.516
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.279
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.208
Given I enable persistence 15.069
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.096
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.226
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.609
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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2:24.392
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.036
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.581
# 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 30.381
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.784
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.263
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
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39.906
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.554
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.206
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.443
And all notifications have disappeared 8.291
When I delete the persistent partition 2.930
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.082
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.704
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.902
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.081
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
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56.853
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.232
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.600
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.732
And all notifications have disappeared 8.112
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.307
And all tps features are enabled 5.797
And all tps features but the first one are active 6.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.961
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.020
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 34.019
And I enable persistence 26.459
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.174
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.564
And persistence is enabled 6.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.556
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.040
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 7.958
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.040
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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36.337
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.098
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.996
When I enable persistence 12.372
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.836
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.962
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.383
When I try to enable persistence 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.613
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.409
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.086
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.173
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.910
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.171
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.555
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 12.067
And all notifications have disappeared 10.084
# 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" 0.153
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.715
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.267
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.557
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.890
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.251
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.458
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.381
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.955
When I log in to a new session 12.397
And all notifications have disappeared 8.781
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.769
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000