Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6489 06 Jul 2026, 07:38

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 22:16.993 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.651
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 1:21.123
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.338
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.267
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.587
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 8.866
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.612
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
And persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.901
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 8.368
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.469
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.306
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.971
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.490
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.988
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.184
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
29.818
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 8.321
And the system is very low on memory 3.609
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.182
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.583
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.111
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.409
And I free up some memory 0.832
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.718
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.100
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 8.110
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
And all tps features are active 5.904
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.026
When I disable the first tps feature 2.576
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.821
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.171
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.655
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.616
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 enabled and logged in 7.770
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 3.033
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.422
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.991
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 7.233
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.119
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.679
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.839
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.746
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 7.302
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 14.013
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.172
When I write some files expected to persist 1.308
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.676
# 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" 12.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.578
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 7.353
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.322
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.456
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.690
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.740
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.501
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.178
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
Tags: @product
41.860
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 8.598
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.109
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.630
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.496
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 9.040
When I enable persistence 18.655
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.803
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.770
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.389
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.255
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.567
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.328
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
When I cold reboot the computer 10.226
And the computer reboots Tails 36.170
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.323
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.269
Given I enable persistence 11.085
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.233
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.960
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:19.278
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 8.573
# 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 28.820
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.747
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.236
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
39.080
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 8.609
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.017
Then persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.280
And all notifications have disappeared 7.655
When I delete the persistent partition 3.024
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.619
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 7.869
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.438
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.034
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
52.458
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 7.505
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.245
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.560
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.970
And all notifications have disappeared 8.015
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.284
And all tps features are enabled 5.280
And all tps features but the first one are active 6.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:10.362
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 30.382
And I enable persistence 22.764
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.133
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.559
And persistence is enabled 5.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.638
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.091
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.836
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.299
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 8.060
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.698
When I enable persistence 11.158
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.041
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.393
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 8.060
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.141
When I try to enable persistence 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.518
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.542
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.237
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.436
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 7.898
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.036
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.519
And all notifications have disappeared 8.937
# 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" 0.180
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.101
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.193
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.325
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.077
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 7.910
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.514
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.335
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.740
When I log in to a new session 11.451
And all notifications have disappeared 8.830
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.461
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000