Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6543 29 Jul 2026, 11:35

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 21:28.046 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.998
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 1:17.766
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.805
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.377
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.198
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 8.349
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.333
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.259
And persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.307
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 8.635
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.328
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.367
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.423
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.162
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.166
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
30.579
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 7.137
And the system is very low on memory 5.622
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.259
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.477
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.103
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.364
And I free up some memory 0.754
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.804
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.042
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 7.994
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And all tps features are active 4.673
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.169
When I disable the first tps feature 2.452
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.881
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.326
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.368
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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12.681
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 7.272
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.547
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.866
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 7.297
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.505
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.852
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.335
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 7.349
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.832
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.032
When I write some files expected to persist 1.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.926
# 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" 12.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.831
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 7.270
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.002
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.468
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.273
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.109
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.350
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
41.859
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 8.376
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 15.054
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.904
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 8.529
When I enable persistence 22.119
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.831
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.531
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
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" 4.525
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.760
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.130
When I cold reboot the computer 6.190
And the computer reboots Tails 37.156
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.261
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.185
Given I enable persistence 11.094
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.093
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.246
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.528
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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2:9.425
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 8.128
# 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 29.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.627
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.659
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
Tags: @product
39.223
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 7.754
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.880
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.174
And all notifications have disappeared 8.276
When I delete the persistent partition 2.657
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.378
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 7.203
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.364
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.530
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
49.804
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 7.513
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.753
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.989
And all notifications have disappeared 7.870
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.280
And all tps features are enabled 4.741
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.246
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 32.465
And I enable persistence 25.712
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.945
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.607
And persistence is enabled 5.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.681
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 6.947
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.099
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
34.470
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 7.782
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.327
When I enable persistence 10.635
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.769
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 7.897
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.948
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.973
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.314
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.094
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.155
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.393
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 7.233
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.655
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.424
And all notifications have disappeared 9.193
# 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" 0.132
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.103
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.164
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.252
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.044
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 7.192
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.646
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.317
When I try to enable persistence 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.919
When I log in to a new session 10.429
And all notifications have disappeared 9.753
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.578
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000