Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6532 27 Jul 2026, 11:49

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 24:8.835 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:42.480
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 1:26.770
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.557
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.289
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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34.378
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 8.930
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.843
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.353
And persistence is disabled 0.177
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:51.236
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 9.484
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.440
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.226
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 5.861
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.779
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.207
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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33.709
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 8.515
And the system is very low on memory 4.923
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.263
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.249
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.160
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.978
And I free up some memory 1.010
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.545
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.824
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 8.921
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.423
And all tps features are active 6.256
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.042
When I disable the first tps feature 2.640
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.470
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.239
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.083
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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14.390
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 7.998
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.135
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.090
When I disable the first tps feature 3.291
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.080
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.535
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.502
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 7.669
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 3.355
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.290
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.328
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.464
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 13.874
And I take note of which tps features are available 5.496
When I write some files expected to persist 1.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.054
# 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" 13.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:58.899
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 7.914
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 10.689
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 7.018
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.220
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 17.251
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.358
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.139
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product
48.108
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 8.916
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.074
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.889
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:3.893
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 9.255
When I enable persistence 22.676
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.977
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.031
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.400
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.287
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.544
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.244
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
When I cold reboot the computer 6.949
And the computer reboots Tails 40.739
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.239
Given I enable persistence 11.473
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.262
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.108
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:23.919
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 8.615
# 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 32.371
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.215
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.210
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
43.442
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 8.429
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.316
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.855
And all notifications have disappeared 8.473
When I delete the persistent partition 2.809
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.744
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 7.979
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.022
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.412
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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1:0.926
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 8.029
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.270
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.228
And all notifications have disappeared 8.360
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.809
And all tps features are enabled 7.667
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.708
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 33.988
And I enable persistence 28.470
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.770
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.775
And persistence is enabled 6.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.955
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.506
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.750
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.352
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 7.908
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.539
When I enable persistence 13.191
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.230
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 8.092
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.210
When I try to enable persistence 1.432
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.865
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.632
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.164
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.600
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 the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.765
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 12.180
And all notifications have disappeared 10.844
# 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" 0.185
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.593
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.507
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.204
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 7.915
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.800
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.414
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.215
When I log in to a new session 12.805
And all notifications have disappeared 9.882
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.980
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000