Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6553 03 Aug 2026, 11:44

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 21:27.353 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.673
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 1:19.807
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.597
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.330
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.151
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 8.334
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.744
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.214
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.476
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 8.398
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.283
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.316
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.082
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.462
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.605
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.189
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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29.850
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 7.098
And the system is very low on memory 4.850
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.167
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.670
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.140
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.340
And I free up some memory 0.754
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.783
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.852
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 8.090
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
And all tps features are active 4.861
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.951
When I disable the first tps feature 2.502
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.320
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.449
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.389
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
Tags: @product
12.566
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 7.277
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.445
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.666
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 7.187
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I disable the first tps feature 2.469
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.822
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.798
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 6.917
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.490
And I take note of which tps features are available 3.770
When I write some files expected to persist 1.090
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.577
# 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" 11.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.603
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 7.085
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 16.396
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.444
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.882
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.983
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.432
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.069
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.090
Tags: @product
40.803
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 8.196
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.124
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.486
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.765
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 8.183
When I enable persistence 18.602
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.777
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.526
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.394
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.268
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.495
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.469
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
When I cold reboot the computer 6.315
And the computer reboots Tails 36.545
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.262
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.179
Given I enable persistence 10.842
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.221
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.292
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
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2:11.346
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 7.982
# 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 29.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.417
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.886
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.396
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 7.546
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.430
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.002
And all notifications have disappeared 8.249
When I delete the persistent partition 2.709
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.642
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 7.537
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.462
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.320
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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51.403
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 7.426
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.388
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.410
And all notifications have disappeared 8.054
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.236
And all tps features are enabled 4.658
And all tps features but the first one are active 4.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:11.143
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 32.095
And I enable persistence 24.044
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.093
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.614
And persistence is enabled 5.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.590
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 7.122
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.866
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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33.676
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 7.936
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.647
When I enable persistence 10.760
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.112
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 7.674
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.489
When I try to enable persistence 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.990
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.362
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.523
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 7.529
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.617
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.639
And all notifications have disappeared 9.443
# 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" 0.178
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.385
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.161
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.381
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.308
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 7.543
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.962
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.340
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.768
When I log in to a new session 10.185
And all notifications have disappeared 9.383
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 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000