Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6548 30 Jul 2026, 11:40

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 21:13.144 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.109
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 1:19.011
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.089
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.229
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.632
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 8.276
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.180
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.243
And persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.843
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 8.458
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.609
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.485
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.572
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
29.259
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 7.269
And the system is very low on memory 4.397
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.236
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.623
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.228
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.350
And I free up some memory 0.795
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.302
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.989
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 8.057
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And all tps features are active 5.068
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.161
When I disable the first tps feature 2.524
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.020
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.760
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.285
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.061
Tags: @product
12.692
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 7.433
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.483
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.030
When I enable the first tps feature 2.415
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.753
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 7.202
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.462
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.858
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.201
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 7.051
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.672
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.880
When I write some files expected to persist 1.178
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.364
# 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" 12.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.776
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 7.014
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.493
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.351
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.916
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 12.313
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.380
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.051
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
Tags: @product
39.791
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 8.245
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.094
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.520
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.500
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 8.014
When I enable persistence 18.262
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.509
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.298
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.327
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.496
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.181
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
When I cold reboot the computer 6.377
And the computer reboots Tails 36.011
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.317
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.178
Given I enable persistence 10.433
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.234
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.227
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.069
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2:10.845
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 8.057
# 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 29.859
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.415
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.601
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product
40.337
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 7.785
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.433
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.745
And all notifications have disappeared 8.331
When I delete the persistent partition 2.631
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.811
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 7.308
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.396
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.828
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
51.148
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 7.821
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.317
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.390
And all notifications have disappeared 7.871
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.330
And all tps features are enabled 5.012
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.359
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 32.615
And I enable persistence 25.819
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.752
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.649
And persistence is enabled 5.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.091
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 6.954
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.633
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.428
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 7.777
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.739
When I enable persistence 10.353
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.964
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 7.476
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.167
When I try to enable persistence 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.364
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.381
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.164
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.934
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 7.282
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.280
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I log in to a new session 11.002
And all notifications have disappeared 10.093
# 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" 0.151
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.399
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.174
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.347
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.672
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 7.350
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.716
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.310
When I try to enable persistence 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.736
When I log in to a new session 10.247
And all notifications have disappeared 8.926
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.424
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000