Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6538 28 Jul 2026, 12:55

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 20:47.190 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.279
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.461
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.814
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.228
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.591
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 8.216
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.753
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.228
And persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.365
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.320
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.334
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.120
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.886
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.321
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.192
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
28.910
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.230
And the system is very low on memory 4.384
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.237
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.741
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.108
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.375
And I free up some memory 0.776
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.006
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.775
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 7.822
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.279
And all tps features are active 4.924
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.004
When I disable the first tps feature 2.464
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.632
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.353
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.876
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
12.594
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 7.194
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.099
When I disable the first tps feature 2.498
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.445
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.501
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 6.938
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 2.447
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.927
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.463
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 7.065
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.259
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.949
When I write some files expected to persist 1.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.384
# 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" 11.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.445
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 7.204
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 9.297
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.380
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.776
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.994
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.433
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
Tags: @product
41.552
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 8.208
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.061
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.080
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.225
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 8.293
When I enable persistence 18.366
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.557
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.376
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.301
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.220
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.612
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.916
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
When I cold reboot the computer 6.029
And the computer reboots Tails 36.055
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.228
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.166
Given I enable persistence 9.416
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.114
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.290
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.998
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:6.349
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 7.652
# 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 27.768
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.570
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.119
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
37.934
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 7.353
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.347
Then persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.127
And all notifications have disappeared 8.056
When I delete the persistent partition 2.628
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:16.164
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 7.191
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.377
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.314
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
49.555
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 7.260
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.549
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.798
And all notifications have disappeared 7.872
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.236
And all tps features are enabled 4.379
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:10.785
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 32.072
And I enable persistence 23.611
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.445
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.590
And persistence is enabled 5.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
25.309
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 6.888
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.879
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.828
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 7.911
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.341
When I enable persistence 10.442
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.687
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 7.389
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.349
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.956
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.385
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.451
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 7.302
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.924
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 8.916
And all notifications have disappeared 9.465
# 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" 0.121
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.088
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.161
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.278
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.420
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 7.333
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.301
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.348
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.531
When I log in to a new session 8.672
And all notifications have disappeared 8.920
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.311
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000