Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6576 13 Aug 2026, 11:34

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 24:44.865 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.032
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 1:17.660
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.342
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.306
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.898
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 9.177
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.365
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.241
And persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.594
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 9.066
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.194
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.210
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.440
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.164
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.019
Tags: @product
31.919
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 8.912
And the system is very low on memory 4.674
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.224
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.408
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.614
And I free up some memory 0.518
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.420
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.546
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 8.117
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.354
And all tps features are active 8.915
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.846
When I disable the first tps feature 2.494
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.941
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.547
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.507
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.033
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14.148
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.385
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I disable the first tps feature 2.640
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.064
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.667
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.613
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 8.054
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.534
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.866
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.284
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 7.783
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 9.742
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.989
When I write some files expected to persist 1.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.565
# 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 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:6.704
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 22.042
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 10.507
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.350
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.312
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 16.755
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.337
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.110
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.064
Tags: @product
42.230
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.931
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.012
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:59.157
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 8.533
When I enable persistence 24.904
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.665
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.523
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.387
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" 4.499
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.146
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 6.069
And the computer reboots Tails 35.899
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.311
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.282
Given I enable persistence 14.790
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.305
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.024
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.071
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2:31.744
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 enabled and logged in 22.267
# 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 31.572
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.454
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.361
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
41.322
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 8.821
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.438
Then persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.130
And all notifications have disappeared 8.813
When I delete the persistent partition 2.722
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:24.400
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 8.217
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.347
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.567
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
59.743
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 8.563
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.618
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.559
And all notifications have disappeared 8.267
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.241
And all tps features are enabled 8.894
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.447
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 2:2.941
And I enable persistence 27.329
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.875
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.548
And persistence is enabled 8.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.396
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 8.060
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.803
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.770
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 8.948
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.483
When I enable persistence 14.258
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.143
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 8.667
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.973
When I try to enable persistence 1.328
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.927
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.560
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.088
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.360
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 8.349
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.862
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.105
And all notifications have disappeared 8.883
# 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" 0.149
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.380
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.183
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.075
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.405
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 8.140
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.639
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.331
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.989
When I log in to a new session 8.798
And all notifications have disappeared 7.052
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.362
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000