Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6569 10 Aug 2026, 12:48

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 24:25.074 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.274
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 1:22.059
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.012
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.348
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.889
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 9.092
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.547
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.248
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.333
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 9.347
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.386
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.150
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.403
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.066
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.739
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.147
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
Tags: @product
45.330
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 22.118
And the system is very low on memory 4.807
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.192
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.584
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.115
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.323
And I free up some memory 0.471
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.672
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.215
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 9.041
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.353
And all tps features are active 8.983
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.534
When I disable the first tps feature 3.123
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.832
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.828
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.876
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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13.375
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 8.050
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.521
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.425
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.086
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 7.925
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 3.086
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.878
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.425
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 7.728
And the network is plugged 0.144
And Tor is ready 12.136
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.894
When I write some files expected to persist 1.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.500
# 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" 11.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.351
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 7.965
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 10.059
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.480
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.646
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 11.434
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.409
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
Tags: @product
39.849
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.238
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.696
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.577
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 8.850
When I enable persistence 23.081
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.636
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.979
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.225
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.189
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.539
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.447
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
When I cold reboot the computer 5.950
And the computer reboots Tails 35.738
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.337
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.273
Given I enable persistence 15.388
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.083
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 7.340
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:10.788
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 8.908
# 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 28.798
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.372
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.208
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
40.744
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 8.654
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.236
Then persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.583
And all notifications have disappeared 9.335
When I delete the persistent partition 2.597
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:23.791
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 8.604
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.091
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.589
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.257
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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1:0.819
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 8.385
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.450
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.367
And all notifications have disappeared 8.675
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.636
And all tps features are enabled 8.596
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.475
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 2:2.969
And I enable persistence 28.618
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.895
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.592
And persistence is enabled 8.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.795
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 7.867
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.246
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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45.535
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 8.945
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.403
When I enable persistence 14.535
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.793
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.547
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.890
When I try to enable persistence 1.247
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.335
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.213
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.239
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.478
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 8.858
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.736
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 9.346
And all notifications have disappeared 9.243
# 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" 0.183
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.099
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.201
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.377
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.139
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.802
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.020
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.320
When I try to enable persistence 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.737
When I log in to a new session 7.741
And all notifications have disappeared 8.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.290
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000