Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6450 16 Jun 2026, 16:57

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 22:48.093 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.134
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.820
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.169
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.293
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.203
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.092
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.462
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.280
And persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.997
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 9.689
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.675
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.764
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.149
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.033
Tags: @product
29.432
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.044
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.541
And the system is very low on memory 3.732
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.217
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.902
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.122
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.449
And I free up some memory 0.851
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.499
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.975
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.072
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.394
And all tps features are active 5.397
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.259
When I disable the first tps feature 2.549
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.700
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.901
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.565
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.059
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14.608
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 enabled and logged in 8.607
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 3.085
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.507
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.050
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 8.209
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.716
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.935
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.374
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.028
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.321
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 13.189
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.594
When I write some files expected to persist 1.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.878
# 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" 12.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.399
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.970
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 10.095
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.101
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.326
And I capture all network traffic 0.017
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.080
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.446
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.086
Tags: @product
41.982
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.302
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.101
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.126
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:1.559
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.194
When I enable persistence 18.469
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.815
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.056
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.327
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.248
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.513
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.751
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 9.298
And the computer reboots Tails 38.661
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.316
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.232
Given I enable persistence 11.948
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.111
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.273
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.967
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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2:20.404
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.006
# 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 29.349
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.072
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.779
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
Tags: @product
41.333
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.578
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.696
Then persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.882
And all notifications have disappeared 7.957
When I delete the persistent partition 2.729
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.645
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.669
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.701
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.999
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
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51.374
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 8.271
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.942
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.080
And all notifications have disappeared 8.068
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.317
And all tps features are enabled 5.355
And all tps features but the first one are active 6.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.148
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 32.019
And I enable persistence 23.897
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.628
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.850
And persistence is enabled 5.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.859
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
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 7.638
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.628
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.803
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.032
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.482
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.108
When I enable persistence 11.280
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.299
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 8.489
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.447
When I try to enable persistence 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.876
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.455
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.168
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.175
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 7.942
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.119
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 11.960
And all notifications have disappeared 9.438
# 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" 0.225
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.574
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.193
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.487
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.330
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 8.203
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.158
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.367
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.806
When I log in to a new session 11.995
And all notifications have disappeared 7.916
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.876
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000