Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6493 09 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 22:21.057 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.623
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 1:20.814
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.368
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.292
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.262
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 8.729
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.989
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.229
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.229
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 8.462
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.364
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.117
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.972
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.109
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.500
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.399
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.246
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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29.464
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.520
And the system is very low on memory 3.419
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.204
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.385
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.142
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.364
And I free up some memory 1.023
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.348
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:53.378
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 8.046
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.391
And all tps features are active 5.703
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.106
When I disable the first tps feature 3.020
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.721
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.939
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.260
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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12.957
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 7.591
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.282
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 7.596
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.676
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.843
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.470
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 7.153
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.282
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.200
When I write some files expected to persist 1.268
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.920
# 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" 12.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.743
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 7.397
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.832
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.773
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.268
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.695
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.390
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
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40.907
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 8.584
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.193
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.093
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.649
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 8.766
When I enable persistence 17.849
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.719
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.687
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.317
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" 4.533
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.814
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 10.448
And the computer reboots Tails 37.821
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.315
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.236
Given I enable persistence 11.118
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.220
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.157
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:19.091
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 8.187
# 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 27.725
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.401
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.260
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.072
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 8.289
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.653
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.940
And all notifications have disappeared 8.003
When I delete the persistent partition 2.722
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:27.023
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 7.577
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.232
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.909
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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51.376
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 8.427
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.776
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.124
And all notifications have disappeared 7.486
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.828
And all tps features are enabled 5.233
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.508
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 32.141
And I enable persistence 25.532
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.586
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.105
And persistence is enabled 6.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.092
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 7.190
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.302
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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33.397
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 8.349
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.178
When I enable persistence 10.954
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.054
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 7.678
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.986
When I try to enable persistence 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.327
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.328
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.140
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.532
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 7.856
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.422
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 12.008
And all notifications have disappeared 8.895
# 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" 0.160
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.083
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.221
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.705
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.940
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 7.731
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.110
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.411
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.039
When I log in to a new session 11.079
And all notifications have disappeared 8.810
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.833
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000