Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6540 28 Jul 2026, 19:58

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 21:55.352 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.612
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 1:20.479
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.825
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.286
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.158
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 8.689
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.398
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.229
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.898
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 8.781
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.339
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.046
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.476
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.870
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
Tags: @product
31.686
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 7.908
And the system is very low on memory 4.344
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.178
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.831
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.129
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.567
And I free up some memory 1.020
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.639
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.465
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 8.149
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.379
And all tps features are active 5.685
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.118
When I disable the first tps feature 3.051
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.960
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.609
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.482
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.066
Tags: @product
13.795
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 7.814
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 3.093
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.755
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 7.278
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 3.200
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.111
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.838
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 7.696
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 13.215
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.701
When I write some files expected to persist 1.380
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.055
# 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" 12.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.740
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 7.458
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 10.243
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.489
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.677
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 11.677
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.368
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.120
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
Tags: @product
41.088
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 8.500
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.090
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.176
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.179
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 8.426
When I enable persistence 20.970
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.827
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.571
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.371
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.224
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.566
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.126
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
When I cold reboot the computer 6.307
And the computer reboots Tails 36.636
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.285
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
Given I enable persistence 11.262
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.126
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.287
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.604
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
2:9.743
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 8.229
# 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 29.939
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.749
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.335
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.413
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
40.126
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.557
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.374
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.647
And all notifications have disappeared 8.356
When I delete the persistent partition 2.702
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.370
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 7.171
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.950
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.934
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
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51.299
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 7.354
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.099
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.377
And all notifications have disappeared 8.115
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.288
And all tps features are enabled 5.113
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.997
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 32.599
And I enable persistence 25.410
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.592
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.567
And persistence is enabled 5.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.528
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 7.229
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.735
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.030
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 7.700
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.100
When I enable persistence 10.401
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.907
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 7.473
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.551
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.668
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.534
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.254
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.834
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 7.217
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.044
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 11.668
And all notifications have disappeared 8.796
# 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" 0.147
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.093
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.191
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.439
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.294
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 7.888
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.438
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.297
When I log in to a new session 10.881
And all notifications have disappeared 9.232
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.323
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000