Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6527 23 Jul 2026, 14:14

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 23:49.687 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:43.501
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.071
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.583
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.575
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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34.387
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 9.226
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.547
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" 8.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:51.835
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 9.348
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.099
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.973
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.644
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.233
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
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34.159
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.166
And the system is very low on memory 5.226
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.188
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.733
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.136
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.547
And I free up some memory 0.830
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.278
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:56.549
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 8.141
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.249
And all tps features are active 7.157
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.435
When I disable the first tps feature 3.228
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.783
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.479
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.194
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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13.470
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 enabled and logged in 7.858
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.728
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.443
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.810
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 8.009
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.697
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.909
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.303
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 7.998
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 12.863
And I take note of which tps features are available 5.292
When I write some files expected to persist 1.462
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.256
# 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" 13.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.345
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 7.691
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 10.220
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.003
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.514
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 12.849
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.448
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.082
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
Tags: @product
47.766
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.570
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.957
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:2.822
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 8.237
When I enable persistence 21.932
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.302
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.442
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.332
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.289
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.579
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.681
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 6.637
And the computer reboots Tails 39.115
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.313
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.187
Given I enable persistence 11.821
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.096
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.317
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.201
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:19.637
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 8.476
# 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 27.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.739
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.306
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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42.320
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 8.006
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.193
Then persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.114
And all notifications have disappeared 8.761
When I delete the persistent partition 2.742
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:28.299
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 8.326
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.889
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.667
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.067
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56.455
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 7.689
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.394
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.045
And all notifications have disappeared 8.377
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.289
And all tps features are enabled 5.508
And all tps features but the first one are active 6.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.681
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
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 34.614
And I enable persistence 27.390
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.418
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.675
And persistence is enabled 6.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.993
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 7.649
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.775
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.290
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 9.000
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.895
When I enable persistence 13.399
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.453
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 7.865
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.342
When I try to enable persistence 1.333
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.733
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.917
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.208
Then persistence is successfully enabled 5.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.925
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 7.786
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.106
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I log in to a new session 12.657
And all notifications have disappeared 9.712
# 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" 0.341
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.506
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.302
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.905
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.675
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 8.662
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.084
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.403
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.567
When I log in to a new session 11.626
And all notifications have disappeared 9.728
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.634
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000