Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6511 19 Jul 2026, 12:04

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 23:4.056 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.545
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.664
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.543
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.289
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.878
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 9.212
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.021
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.358
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.452
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 8.885
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.348
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.348
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.568
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.889
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.185
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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32.055
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 7.686
And the system is very low on memory 4.608
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.218
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.767
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.237
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.428
And I free up some memory 0.946
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.118
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.284
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 7.962
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.332
And all tps features are active 5.791
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.124
When I disable the first tps feature 2.539
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.308
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.614
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.466
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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13.280
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 7.843
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 2.598
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.716
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 7.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 3.118
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.967
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.453
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 7.274
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.640
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.301
When I write some files expected to persist 1.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.572
# 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" 12.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:53.052
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 enabled and logged in 7.640
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 10.402
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 10.054
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.077
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 13.068
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.404
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
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43.615
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.437
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.127
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.367
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:5.123
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 8.496
When I enable persistence 20.918
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.722
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.670
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.330
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.246
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.546
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.535
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
When I cold reboot the computer 10.369
And the computer reboots Tails 39.724
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.294
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.205
Given I enable persistence 12.711
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.231
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.657
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
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2:22.535
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.583
# 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 28.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.882
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:11.240
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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42.720
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 8.022
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.743
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.023
And all notifications have disappeared 8.510
When I delete the persistent partition 2.841
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:29.816
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 7.507
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.111
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.848
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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54.531
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 7.935
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.648
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.242
And all notifications have disappeared 8.240
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.333
And all tps features are enabled 5.799
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.602
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 33.725
And I enable persistence 26.675
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.386
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.630
And persistence is enabled 6.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.469
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 7.354
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.525
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.023
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 7.998
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.855
When I enable persistence 11.852
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.440
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 7.678
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.949
When I try to enable persistence 1.414
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.130
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.619
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.171
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.967
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 7.433
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.135
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.117
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 11.899
And all notifications have disappeared 8.349
# 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" 0.195
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.093
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.213
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.452
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.489
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 7.822
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.180
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.382
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.194
When I log in to a new session 11.065
And all notifications have disappeared 9.677
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.133
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000