Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6508 16 Jul 2026, 11:32

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 21:13.175 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.786
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 1:17.546
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.147
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.294
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.187
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 8.056
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.825
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.235
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.416
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 8.259
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.432
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.356
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.695
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.169
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.648
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 7.418
And the system is very low on memory 4.156
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.176
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.600
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.407
And I free up some memory 0.828
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.917
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.140
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 7.791
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.297
And all tps features are active 5.124
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.923
When I disable the first tps feature 2.600
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.865
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.439
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.577
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
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12.511
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 7.095
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.522
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.486
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.481
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 6.944
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.532
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.845
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.414
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 7.151
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 8.505
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.105
When I write some files expected to persist 1.165
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.519
# 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" 11.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.397
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
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.596
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.250
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.439
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.008
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.220
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.382
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
Tags: @product
39.937
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 8.001
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.026
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.695
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 8.128
When I enable persistence 18.992
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.624
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.308
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
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" 4.503
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.881
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
When I cold reboot the computer 8.881
And the computer reboots Tails 35.271
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.245
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.187
Given I enable persistence 10.607
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.215
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.898
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:10.364
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 7.996
# 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 28.625
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.545
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.512
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
Tags: @product
37.854
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 7.373
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.334
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.924
And all notifications have disappeared 8.047
When I delete the persistent partition 2.684
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.451
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 7.232
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.394
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.577
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
47.912
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 7.046
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.597
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.874
And all notifications have disappeared 7.607
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.286
And all tps features are enabled 4.283
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:10.469
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 30.796
And I enable persistence 24.399
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.469
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.509
And persistence is enabled 5.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.919
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 6.745
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.659
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.611
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 7.797
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.974
When I enable persistence 10.573
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.327
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 6.960
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.596
When I try to enable persistence 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.030
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.233
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.240
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 7.123
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.092
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.895
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 10.019
And all notifications have disappeared 9.827
# 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" 0.162
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.532
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.156
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.357
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.406
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 7.355
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.866
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.393
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.587
When I log in to a new session 9.112
And all notifications have disappeared 8.781
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.434
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000