Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6496 11 Jul 2026, 11:34

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 20:59.198 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.712
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 1:17.231
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.478
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.250
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.067
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 8.502
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.783
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.226
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.172
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 8.430
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.283
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.748
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.531
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.809
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.166
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.045
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 7.212
And the system is very low on memory 3.976
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.155
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.494
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.092
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.332
And I free up some memory 0.871
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.842
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.221
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 8.212
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And all tps features are active 4.696
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.916
When I disable the first tps feature 2.500
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.156
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.894
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.673
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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12.524
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 7.265
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 2.449
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.416
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.749
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 7.219
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.499
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.836
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.232
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 6.974
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.990
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.744
When I write some files expected to persist 1.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.355
# 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" 11.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.587
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 enabled and logged in 7.339
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 9.271
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.289
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.923
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 11.014
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
Tags: @product
38.753
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 8.544
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.083
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.089
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.679
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 8.480
When I enable persistence 16.470
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.761
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.285
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.306
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.231
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.555
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.885
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 10.052
And the computer reboots Tails 35.398
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.313
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.219
Given I enable persistence 10.480
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.336
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.482
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:8.901
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 8.016
# 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 25.362
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.424
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.782
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
Tags: @product
37.495
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 8.618
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.865
Then persistence is disabled 0.129
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.196
And all notifications have disappeared 7.624
When I delete the persistent partition 2.696
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.364
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.839
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 7.799
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.261
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.486
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
48.399
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 8.111
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.471
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.867
And all notifications have disappeared 7.837
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.303
And all tps features are enabled 4.845
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:7.183
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 28.821
And I enable persistence 22.432
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.879
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.592
And persistence is enabled 5.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.276
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 7.053
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.661
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.468
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 7.651
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.177
When I enable persistence 10.255
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.086
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.189
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 7.461
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.666
When I try to enable persistence 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.006
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.382
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.138
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.372
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 7.592
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.475
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.034
And all notifications have disappeared 9.046
# 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" 0.159
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.406
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.213
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.251
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.322
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 7.337
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.005
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.406
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.164
When I log in to a new session 10.497
And all notifications have disappeared 8.868
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.229
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000