Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6494 09 Jul 2026, 11:44

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 21:30.850 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.382
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 1:18.109
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.887
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.383
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.166
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 8.723
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.544
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.244
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.107
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 8.194
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.520
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.446
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.249
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.167
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
28.899
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 7.477
And the system is very low on memory 3.773
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.137
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.735
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.094
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.378
And I free up some memory 0.776
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.481
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.875
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 8.458
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
And all tps features are active 5.339
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.161
When I disable the first tps feature 2.569
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.571
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.736
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.933
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
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12.654
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 7.146
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.459
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.093
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.082
When I enable the first tps feature 2.555
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.769
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 7.232
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 2.514
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.852
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.923
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 7.210
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.938
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.298
When I write some files expected to persist 1.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.543
# 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" 11.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.847
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 7.124
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 8.479
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.443
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.733
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.228
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.491
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.064
Tags: @product
40.209
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 8.657
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.102
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.627
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.997
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 8.438
When I enable persistence 16.558
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.939
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.517
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.365
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.250
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.778
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.327
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
When I cold reboot the computer 10.081
And the computer reboots Tails 36.153
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.333
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.180
Given I enable persistence 11.557
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.082
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.263
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.807
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:6.591
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 8.382
# 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 23.719
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.400
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.719
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
39.066
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 8.627
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.926
Then persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.459
And all notifications have disappeared 7.779
When I delete the persistent partition 2.777
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:26.694
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 7.583
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.565
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.176
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product
51.051
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 8.504
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.245
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.591
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.145
And all notifications have disappeared 7.883
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.299
And all tps features are enabled 5.619
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:12.708
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 31.799
And I enable persistence 24.647
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.921
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.638
And persistence is enabled 5.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.822
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 7.199
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.055
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.871
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 8.138
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.543
When I enable persistence 10.975
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.588
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 8.301
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.961
When I try to enable persistence 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.401
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.415
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.150
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.028
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 7.412
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.278
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.345
And all notifications have disappeared 8.537
# 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" 0.267
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.403
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.161
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.262
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.591
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 7.512
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.147
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.364
When I try to enable persistence 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.129
When I log in to a new session 10.187
And all notifications have disappeared 8.995
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.483
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000