Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6537 28 Jul 2026, 11:50

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 22:54.397 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.692
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.273
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.251
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.283
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.688
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 8.401
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.322
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.377
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 8.737
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.380
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.879
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.593
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.254
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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31.906
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 7.507
And the system is very low on memory 4.854
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.178
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.949
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.155
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.501
And I free up some memory 0.986
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.726
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:49.247
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 8.446
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
And all tps features are active 5.443
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.142
When I disable the first tps feature 2.748
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.800
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.365
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.659
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
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13.294
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 7.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.136
When I disable the first tps feature 2.759
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.073
When I enable the first tps feature 2.500
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.126
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 7.550
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.506
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.890
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.546
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 7.405
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.696
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.484
When I write some files expected to persist 1.302
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.922
# 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" 12.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.828
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 7.279
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 10.650
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.086
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.301
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.712
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
Tags: @product
43.874
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 8.653
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.119
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.819
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.426
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 9.052
When I enable persistence 19.392
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.115
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.720
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.329
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.256
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.513
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.130
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 6.252
And the computer reboots Tails 38.301
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.267
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.197
Given I enable persistence 11.763
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.279
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.463
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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2:26.303
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 8.721
# 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 32.343
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.981
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:16.891
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
41.972
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.146
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.437
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.541
And all notifications have disappeared 8.585
When I delete the persistent partition 2.737
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.194
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 7.531
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.487
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.871
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
53.959
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 8.492
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.148
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.989
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.243
And all notifications have disappeared 7.913
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.900
And all tps features are enabled 5.704
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.486
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 34.464
And I enable persistence 26.761
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.356
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.638
And persistence is enabled 6.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.142
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 7.339
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.252
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.974
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 8.185
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.406
When I enable persistence 12.057
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.086
And persistence is successfully enabled 6.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.678
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 8.343
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.721
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.572
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.599
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.116
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.232
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.386
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 7.623
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.418
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.678
And all notifications have disappeared 10.424
# 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" 0.113
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.415
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.177
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.333
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.287
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 7.761
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.361
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.625
When I log in to a new session 11.460
And all notifications have disappeared 9.815
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.851
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000