Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6510 18 Jul 2026, 11:41

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 21:28.016 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.274
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 1:16.377
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.802
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.272
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.296
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 8.288
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.788
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
And persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.221
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 8.095
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.657
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.843
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.975
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
29.837
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 7.662
And the system is very low on memory 4.412
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.266
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.721
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.100
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.435
And I free up some memory 1.005
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.179
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.267
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 8.187
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.298
And all tps features are active 5.102
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.989
When I disable the first tps feature 2.558
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.278
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.513
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.433
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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12.714
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 7.280
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.456
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.660
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 7.110
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.500
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.855
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.643
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 7.194
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.646
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.951
When I write some files expected to persist 1.159
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.585
# 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" 12.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.680
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 7.054
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 9.702
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.371
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.570
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.188
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.436
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
Tags: @product
39.343
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 8.468
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.067
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.009
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.129
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 7.956
When I enable persistence 19.336
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.575
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.589
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.338
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.275
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.541
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.587
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
When I cold reboot the computer 8.688
And the computer reboots Tails 36.579
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.234
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.229
Given I enable persistence 11.058
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.279
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.485
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:13.622
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 7.656
# 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 29.884
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.525
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.188
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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39.665
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 7.834
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.454
Then persistence is disabled 0.144
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.052
And all notifications have disappeared 8.093
When I delete the persistent partition 2.684
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.150
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 7.315
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.350
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.191
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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50.430
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 7.514
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.691
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.535
And all notifications have disappeared 7.920
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.262
And all tps features are enabled 5.092
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:10.298
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 33.164
And I enable persistence 22.482
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.925
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.554
And persistence is enabled 5.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.132
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 6.939
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.448
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.805
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 8.326
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.299
When I enable persistence 11.119
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
And persistence is successfully enabled 4.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.104
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 7.218
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.408
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.778
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.291
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.142
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.249
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 7.389
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.981
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 9.966
And all notifications have disappeared 9.683
# 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" 0.183
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.431
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.205
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.225
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.488
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 7.295
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.710
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.319
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.506
When I log in to a new session 8.406
And all notifications have disappeared 9.111
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.306
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000