Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6514 21 Jul 2026, 07:39

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 22:24.479 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.080
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.221
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.670
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.276
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.210
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 8.866
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.289
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.248
And persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.238
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 logged in 8.351
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.922
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.153
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.073
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.270
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
Tags: @product
31.243
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 logged in 7.642
And the system is very low on memory 5.716
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.198
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.909
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.382
And I free up some memory 0.892
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.346
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.972
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 8.229
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.345
And all tps features are active 5.964
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.293
When I disable the first tps feature 2.561
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.227
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.739
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.646
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
13.748
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 7.748
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.099
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I disable the first tps feature 3.059
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.219
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 7.038
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.105
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 3.044
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.930
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.777
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 7.367
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 12.455
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.389
When I write some files expected to persist 1.220
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.411
# 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" 12.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.406
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 7.080
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.763
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.217
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.912
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.613
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.403
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
Tags: @product
45.297
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 8.677
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.088
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.003
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.659
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 8.386
When I enable persistence 19.662
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.746
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.457
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.310
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.285
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.540
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.659
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 6.329
And the computer reboots Tails 38.052
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.307
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.363
Given I enable persistence 11.372
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.228
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.525
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:15.820
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 8.200
# 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 31.033
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.253
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.492
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
41.677
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 8.458
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.236
Then persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.206
And all notifications have disappeared 8.442
When I delete the persistent partition 2.659
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:25.321
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 7.912
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.518
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.450
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
52.768
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 7.991
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.036
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.092
And all notifications have disappeared 8.093
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.277
And all tps features are enabled 4.887
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.960
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 32.693
And I enable persistence 25.938
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.232
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.615
And persistence is enabled 5.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.723
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 7.132
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.892
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
35.056
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 8.200
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.401
When I enable persistence 10.318
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.744
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 7.686
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.161
When I try to enable persistence 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.602
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.476
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.146
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.941
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 7.319
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.575
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 11.505
And all notifications have disappeared 9.980
# 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" 0.168
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.461
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.235
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.328
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.610
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 7.769
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.984
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.393
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.197
When I log in to a new session 11.412
And all notifications have disappeared 8.367
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.426
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000