Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6557 04 Aug 2026, 13:46

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 23:1.167 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.931
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 1:17.426
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.654
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.197
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.733
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 8.453
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.116
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.207
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.266
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 8.494
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.043
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.249
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.836
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.146
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
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29.524
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 7.834
And the system is very low on memory 4.769
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.223
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.583
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.078
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.350
And I free up some memory 0.480
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.149
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.718
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 8.153
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.297
And all tps features are active 8.101
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.795
When I disable the first tps feature 2.461
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.994
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.276
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.394
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.288
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 7.911
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.521
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.064
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.264
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 7.778
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.495
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.800
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.089
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 7.853
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 9.511
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.060
When I write some files expected to persist 1.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.197
# 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" 11.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.846
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 7.662
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 9.667
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.113
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.305
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.041
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 12.435
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.068
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38.557
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.555
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.246
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:2.045
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 22.926
When I enable persistence 23.195
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.138
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.218
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.192
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.133
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.412
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.934
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.106
When I cold reboot the computer 5.738
And the computer reboots Tails 31.509
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.269
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
Given I enable persistence 12.132
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.083
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.156
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.540
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:3.188
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 8.133
# 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 27.538
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.210
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.580
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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36.671
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 7.827
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.362
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.435
And all notifications have disappeared 8.056
When I delete the persistent partition 2.666
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.606
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 7.770
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.319
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.288
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
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53.766
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 7.937
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.513
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.519
And all notifications have disappeared 8.394
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.287
And all tps features are enabled 7.682
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.109
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 1:57.104
And I enable persistence 25.538
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.488
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.494
And persistence is enabled 7.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.733
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 7.388
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.819
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.368
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 8.265
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.339
When I enable persistence 12.951
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.286
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 7.722
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.805
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.544
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.256
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.075
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.212
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.152
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 21.067
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.399
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I log in to a new session 7.738
And all notifications have disappeared 7.228
# 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" 0.169
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.093
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.160
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.050
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 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.015
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 21.188
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.370
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.264
When I try to enable persistence 1.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.429
When I log in to a new session 8.025
And all notifications have disappeared 7.265
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.072
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000