Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6559 04 Aug 2026, 14:26

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 24:0.277 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.772
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 1:20.213
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.623
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.254
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.490
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 8.627
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.047
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.240
And persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.526
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 8.783
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.301
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.719
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.164
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
30.581
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 7.953
And the system is very low on memory 4.745
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.312
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.593
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.383
And I free up some memory 0.553
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.871
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.006
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 8.379
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
And all tps features are active 8.268
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.870
When I disable the first tps feature 2.460
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.672
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.654
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.759
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.722
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 8.392
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I disable the first tps feature 2.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.251
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 7.560
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.633
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.879
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.647
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 7.829
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 9.874
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.972
When I write some files expected to persist 0.871
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.388
# 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" 11.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.163
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 7.762
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.418
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.530
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.159
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 11.491
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 1.413
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.044
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
Tags: @product
40.882
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 8.561
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 14.147
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.842
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 8.756
When I enable persistence 23.113
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.047
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.625
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.397
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.418
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.483
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.901
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.090
When I cold reboot the computer 5.792
And the computer reboots Tails 33.426
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.346
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
Given I enable persistence 12.604
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.346
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.038
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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2:8.803
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 8.429
# 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 29.767
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.327
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.946
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
39.639
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 8.524
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.233
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.156
And all notifications have disappeared 8.704
When I delete the persistent partition 2.653
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:18.488
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 8.381
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.223
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.590
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
57.062
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 8.298
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.936
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.226
And all notifications have disappeared 8.273
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.241
And all tps features are enabled 8.192
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:26.044
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:36.492
And I enable persistence 30.674
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.195
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.579
And persistence is enabled 10.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.777
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 8.282
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.948
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.676
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.958
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.728
When I enable persistence 13.160
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.735
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 8.451
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.185
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.166
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.445
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.247
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.325
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 8.345
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.784
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I log in to a new session 7.751
And all notifications have disappeared 8.556
# 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" 0.226
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.098
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.136
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.053
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.835
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 8.205
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.191
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.312
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.552
When I log in to a new session 7.736
And all notifications have disappeared 7.623
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.151
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000