Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6503 14 Jul 2026, 08:02

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 21:0.746 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.806
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 1:17.188
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.498
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.242
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.766
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 8.529
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.026
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.228
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.302
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 8.137
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.271
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.157
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.170
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
28.425
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 7.287
And the system is very low on memory 3.885
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.225
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.736
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.362
And I free up some memory 0.764
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.987
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.483
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 8.195
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.336
And all tps features are active 4.558
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.715
When I disable the first tps feature 2.559
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.786
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.393
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.109
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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12.802
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 7.555
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.461
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.409
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.642
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 7.163
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.495
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.810
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.909
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 7.096
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 9.915
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.950
When I write some files expected to persist 1.026
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.169
# 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" 11.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.565
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 7.184
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 8.316
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.250
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.982
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 11.033
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.405
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.094
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.096
Tags: @product
37.976
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 8.478
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.101
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.796
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.258
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 8.662
When I enable persistence 16.407
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.623
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.132
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.345
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.506
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.904
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 8.692
And the computer reboots Tails 34.699
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.252
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.172
Given I enable persistence 10.419
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.216
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.621
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:12.144
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 7.634
# 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 27.405
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.021
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.307
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
Tags: @product
35.826
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 8.077
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.140
Then persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.073
And all notifications have disappeared 7.412
When I delete the persistent partition 2.658
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.374
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 7.719
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.102
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.303
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.983
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
48.946
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 8.201
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.850
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.048
And all notifications have disappeared 7.494
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.254
And all tps features are enabled 4.874
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:7.468
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.645
And I enable persistence 21.937
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.338
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.606
And persistence is enabled 4.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.436
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 7.096
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.785
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.245
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 8.166
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.802
When I enable persistence 9.979
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.702
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 8.268
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.562
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.712
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.421
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.184
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.148
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 7.423
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.569
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.670
And all notifications have disappeared 9.286
# 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" 0.152
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.413
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.153
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.287
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.514
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 7.267
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.871
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.331
When I try to enable persistence 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.442
When I log in to a new session 10.570
And all notifications have disappeared 7.827
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.268
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000