Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6495 10 Jul 2026, 11:36

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 21:21.307 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.427
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 1:19.320
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.070
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.213
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.003
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 8.586
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.804
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.220
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.154
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 8.396
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.283
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.901
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.905
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.267
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.212
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.230
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.355
And the system is very low on memory 3.869
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.194
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.382
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.140
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.368
And I free up some memory 0.832
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.037
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.669
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 8.121
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
And all tps features are active 4.985
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.153
When I disable the first tps feature 2.496
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.710
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.476
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.697
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
12.914
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 7.578
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I disable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.444
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.681
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 7.068
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
And I disable the first tps feature 2.515
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.929
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.907
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.179
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.030
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.077
When I write some files expected to persist 1.195
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.337
# 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" 12.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.934
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 6.996
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.649
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.290
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.947
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.339
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.366
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.109
Tags: @product
40.130
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 8.429
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 13.525
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.538
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 8.591
When I enable persistence 16.514
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.117
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.644
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.338
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.537
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.601
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
When I cold reboot the computer 10.269
And the computer reboots Tails 36.068
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.267
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.175
Given I enable persistence 10.196
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.063
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.223
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.388
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:13.555
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 8.225
# 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 26.095
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.222
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.783
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.985
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 8.254
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.580
Then persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.008
And all notifications have disappeared 7.855
When I delete the persistent partition 2.819
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.654
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 7.189
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.300
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.877
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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48.423
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 7.932
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.587
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.131
And all notifications have disappeared 7.737
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.262
And all tps features are enabled 4.804
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:9.756
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 29.342
And I enable persistence 24.350
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.950
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.598
And persistence is enabled 5.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.071
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 6.966
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.585
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.677
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 7.630
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.909
When I enable persistence 10.432
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.108
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 7.786
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.789
When I try to enable persistence 1.372
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.865
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.325
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.136
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.702
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 7.459
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.772
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 11.118
And all notifications have disappeared 9.318
# 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" 0.157
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.089
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.362
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.779
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 7.591
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.967
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.337
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.775
When I log in to a new session 10.864
And all notifications have disappeared 7.926
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.317
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000