Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6518 21 Jul 2026, 18:04

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 24:0.476 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.394
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 1:24.678
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.499
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.311
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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34.042
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.518
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.568
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.546
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 8.878
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.372
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.130
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.554
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.248
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.985
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.251
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
31.172
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 7.471
And the system is very low on memory 4.943
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.434
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.271
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.151
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.466
And I free up some memory 0.817
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.569
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:56.817
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 8.795
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
And all tps features are active 5.521
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.227
When I disable the first tps feature 3.087
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.151
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.038
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.002
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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14.058
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 8.550
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.105
When I disable the first tps feature 2.655
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.416
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.557
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 7.628
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.704
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.014
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.716
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.561
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 13.401
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.450
When I write some files expected to persist 1.357
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.502
# 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" 13.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:53.660
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 7.340
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 11.697
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.196
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.171
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 13.504
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.354
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
Tags: @product
44.626
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 8.596
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.173
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.766
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:10.495
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 8.742
When I enable persistence 24.974
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.228
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.908
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.492
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.271
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.650
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.963
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
When I cold reboot the computer 6.666
And the computer reboots Tails 42.292
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.363
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
Given I enable persistence 12.753
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.086
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.302
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.229
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:24.646
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 8.402
# 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 30.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.262
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:15.179
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
Tags: @product
44.510
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 8.420
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.064
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.291
And all notifications have disappeared 8.424
When I delete the persistent partition 2.826
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.396
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 8.405
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.595
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.069
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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57.687
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 7.701
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.256
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.009
And all notifications have disappeared 8.063
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.424
And all tps features are enabled 6.731
And all tps features but the first one are active 6.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.138
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 33.405
And I enable persistence 28.512
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.560
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.895
And persistence is enabled 6.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.779
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 7.030
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.179
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.104
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 8.351
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.213
When I enable persistence 12.652
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.751
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 8.666
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.955
When I try to enable persistence 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.010
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.531
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.229
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.085
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 8.556
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.609
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 12.067
And all notifications have disappeared 10.363
# 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" 0.236
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.693
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.322
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.818
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.286
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 7.673
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.155
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.412
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.193
When I log in to a new session 11.611
And all notifications have disappeared 10.469
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.761
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000