Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6470 24 Jun 2026, 11:38

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 22:13.563 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.378
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.388
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.722
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.263
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.809
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.998
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.088
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.212
And persistence is disabled 0.162
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.675
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.426
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.448
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.467
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.930
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.011
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
30.751
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.029
And the system is very low on memory 3.462
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.037
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.114
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.380
And I free up some memory 1.060
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.432
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.284
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.720
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
And all tps features are active 5.786
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.283
When I disable the first tps feature 3.129
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.643
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.449
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.950
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
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13.626
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.074
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.652
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.446
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.106
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.347
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I disable the first tps feature 2.667
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.879
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.825
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.416
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 13.174
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.224
When I write some files expected to persist 1.097
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.440
# 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" 12.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.747
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.150
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 10.414
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.151
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.427
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.106
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.514
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.476
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.269
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
Tags: @product
43.227
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.698
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.070
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.964
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.670
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.625
When I enable persistence 18.249
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.766
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.551
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.306
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.602
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.656
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.155
When I cold reboot the computer 10.535
And the computer reboots Tails 37.699
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.309
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.184
Given I enable persistence 11.082
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.244
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.251
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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2:16.269
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.348
# 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 29.615
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.749
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.754
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
39.029
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.538
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.581
Then persistence is disabled 0.136
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.484
And all notifications have disappeared 7.928
When I delete the persistent partition 2.868
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:27.778
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.189
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.073
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.549
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.694
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
50.534
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.021
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.126
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.048
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.144
And all notifications have disappeared 7.764
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.309
And all tps features are enabled 4.604
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.427
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 31.807
And I enable persistence 24.019
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.718
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.628
And persistence is enabled 5.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.464
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.207
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.702
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.880
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.332
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.203
When I enable persistence 10.911
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.037
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.145
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.202
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.981
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.485
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.627
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.082
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.219
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.836
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.670
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.501
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 11.317
And all notifications have disappeared 9.116
# 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 0.494
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.210
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.245
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.093
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.529
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.086
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.341
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.334
When I log in to a new session 11.514
And all notifications have disappeared 8.145
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.330
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000