Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6486 01 Jul 2026, 15:58

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 23:19.910 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.164
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.522
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.192
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.276
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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32.130
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 9.898
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.938
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.359
And persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.645
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 8.357
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.890
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.272
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.029
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.629
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.225
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product
31.290
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 7.918
And the system is very low on memory 3.691
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.321
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.767
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.116
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.544
And I free up some memory 1.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.772
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.898
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.033
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.124
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 5.365
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.258
When I disable the first tps feature 2.643
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.852
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.975
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.994
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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15.340
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 8.713
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 3.123
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 3.053
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.508
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.388
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.159
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.785
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.019
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.517
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 7.825
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.897
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.505
When I write some files expected to persist 1.237
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.230
# 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" 12.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:53.853
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 7.983
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.133
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.872
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.987
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.157
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.358
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.069
Tags: @product
41.752
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 8.606
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.184
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.649
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:4.118
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 9.481
When I enable persistence 21.316
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.128
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.048
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.576
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.270
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.631
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.304
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 6.293
And the computer reboots Tails 38.191
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.279
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
Given I enable persistence 12.800
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.086
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.284
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.858
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
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2:19.874
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 enabled and logged in 9.413
# 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 26.558
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.037
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.173
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
42.768
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 9.128
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.932
Then persistence is disabled 0.162
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.208
And all notifications have disappeared 7.967
When I delete the persistent partition 2.967
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.193
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 7.595
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.011
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.270
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
53.298
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 8.896
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.107
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.470
And all notifications have disappeared 7.508
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.809
And all tps features are enabled 6.082
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.564
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 31.709
And I enable persistence 24.973
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.442
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.704
And persistence is enabled 6.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.747
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 6.974
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.226
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
36.238
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 8.737
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.407
When I enable persistence 11.800
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.180
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 8.009
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.219
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.284
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.436
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.145
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.971
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 7.609
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.333
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 11.248
And all notifications have disappeared 10.094
# 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" 0.242
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.534
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.170
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.537
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.851
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 7.422
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.428
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.403
When I try to enable persistence 1.255
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.387
When I log in to a new session 12.203
And all notifications have disappeared 8.436
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.527
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000