Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6504 14 Jul 2026, 11:51

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 23:23.373 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.539
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 1:20.943
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.349
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.381
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.857
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 8.574
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.845
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.520
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 9.004
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.316
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.154
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.710
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.339
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.667
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.191
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
Tags: @product
31.190
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.510
And the system is very low on memory 4.288
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.195
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.062
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.171
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.484
And I free up some memory 0.868
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.544
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.162
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 8.654
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.340
And all tps features are active 6.492
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.846
When I disable the first tps feature 3.171
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.349
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.204
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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14.342
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 7.992
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.084
When I disable the first tps feature 3.261
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.598
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.846
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 7.235
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I disable the first tps feature 3.215
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.169
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.913
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 7.548
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 13.596
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.752
When I write some files expected to persist 1.303
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.678
# 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" 13.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:57.717
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 7.758
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 11.772
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.145
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.012
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.901
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 17.486
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.369
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.071
Tags: @product
43.331
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.818
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.130
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.598
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:8.992
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.027
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.188
When I enable persistence 20.504
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.021
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.963
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.423
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.436
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.708
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.810
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
When I cold reboot the computer 10.461
And the computer reboots Tails 38.535
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.363
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.225
Given I enable persistence 12.250
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.090
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.246
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.372
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:22.933
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 8.448
# 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 28.977
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.881
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.384
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
40.836
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 8.566
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.642
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.660
And all notifications have disappeared 8.395
When I delete the persistent partition 2.974
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.882
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 7.962
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.631
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.889
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
55.700
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 8.543
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.015
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.006
And all notifications have disappeared 8.396
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.327
And all tps features are enabled 6.057
And all tps features but the first one are active 6.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.246
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 34.318
And I enable persistence 24.396
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.660
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.570
And persistence is enabled 6.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.076
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.609
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.887
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.239
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 8.827
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.529
When I enable persistence 12.647
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.078
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.870
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 7.892
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.577
When I try to enable persistence 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.516
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.621
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.171
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.408
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.993
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.284
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 12.163
And all notifications have disappeared 9.865
# 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" 0.225
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.726
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.304
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.547
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.763
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 7.749
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.765
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.488
When I try to enable persistence 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.824
When I log in to a new session 12.490
And all notifications have disappeared 8.962
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.534
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000