Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6492 08 Jul 2026, 11:42

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 22:17.076 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.624
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 1:20.876
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.495
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.288
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.454
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 8.635
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.483
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.125
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 9.204
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.356
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.893
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.600
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.549
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.307
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
30.372
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.694
And the system is very low on memory 4.460
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.235
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.717
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.104
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.427
And I free up some memory 0.963
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.714
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.997
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 8.289
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.359
And all tps features are active 5.809
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.494
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.303
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.609
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.494
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.025
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13.042
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 7.593
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.626
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.042
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.667
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 7.368
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 3.140
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.979
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.331
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 7.121
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 13.722
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.101
When I write some files expected to persist 1.197
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.790
# 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" 12.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.964
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 7.682
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.049
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.160
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.156
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.589
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.613
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.441
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.096
Tags: @product
42.753
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.767
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.393
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:0.276
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.780
When I enable persistence 17.500
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.760
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.559
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.348
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.237
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.557
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.186
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
When I cold reboot the computer 10.745
And the computer reboots Tails 37.814
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.357
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.191
Given I enable persistence 12.062
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.259
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.494
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:17.688
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 8.566
# 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 29.817
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.485
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.064
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
Tags: @product
40.208
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.397
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.186
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.160
And all notifications have disappeared 8.303
When I delete the persistent partition 2.692
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:27.885
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 7.838
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.605
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.081
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
51.881
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 8.654
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.237
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.439
And all notifications have disappeared 8.108
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.391
And all tps features are enabled 5.096
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:12.260
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 31.219
And I enable persistence 23.606
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.884
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.722
And persistence is enabled 5.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.541
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 7.171
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.890
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.921
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 8.270
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.670
When I enable persistence 10.990
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.634
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 7.931
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.843
When I try to enable persistence 1.260
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.864
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.357
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.142
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.838
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 7.879
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.122
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.666
And all notifications have disappeared 9.627
# 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" 0.237
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.443
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.254
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.363
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.605
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 7.988
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.857
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.305
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.968
When I log in to a new session 10.289
And all notifications have disappeared 9.731
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.669
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000