Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6464 19 Jun 2026, 11:54

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 23:43.381 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.099
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.888
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.689
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.370
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.612
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.136
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.991
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.252
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.750
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.367
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.330
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.846
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.640
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.151
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.204
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
33.449
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.241
And the system is very low on memory 4.274
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.227
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.014
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.107
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.440
And I free up some memory 0.960
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.100
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.986
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.030
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.428
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.352
And all tps features are active 6.598
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.358
When I disable the first tps feature 2.539
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.089
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.393
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.418
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
Tags: @product
14.596
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 7.841
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.151
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 3.064
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 3.104
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.114
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.803
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 8.018
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.599
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.974
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
52.076
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 8.776
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 14.059
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.506
When I write some files expected to persist 1.257
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.177
# 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" 13.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:52.841
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 enabled and logged in 7.398
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 10.806
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.936
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.808
And I capture all network traffic 0.019
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.086
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.396
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
Tags: @product
42.353
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.387
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.099
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.664
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:5.797
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 9.143
When I enable persistence 19.537
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.142
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.737
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.368
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.224
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.516
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.620
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.253
When I cold reboot the computer 9.847
And the computer reboots Tails 39.867
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.268
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.189
Given I enable persistence 12.478
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.281
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.076
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.045
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2:26.218
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 enabled and logged in 8.998
# 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 32.743
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.757
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.757
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
Tags: @product
41.348
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.338
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.613
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.497
And all notifications have disappeared 7.748
When I delete the persistent partition 3.555
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.014
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 8.640
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.366
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.667
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.081
Tags: @product
58.077
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.391
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.111
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.238
And all notifications have disappeared 8.059
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.857
And all tps features are enabled 6.065
And all tps features but the first one are active 6.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.514
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.035
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 35.215
And I enable persistence 24.831
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.238
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.717
And persistence is enabled 5.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.431
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.617
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.168
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.293
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 9.031
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.937
When I enable persistence 11.591
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.090
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 8.543
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.343
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.922
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.543
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.168
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.786
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.270
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.362
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.939
And all notifications have disappeared 9.597
# 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" 0.278
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.591
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.209
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.974
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.238
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.054
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.703
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.190
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.561
When I try to enable persistence 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.917
When I log in to a new session 11.687
And all notifications have disappeared 10.057
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.055
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000