Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6580 14 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 23:22.165 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.833
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 1:20.739
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.862
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.208
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.532
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 8.230
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.622
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.191
And persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.335
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 8.513
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.090
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.599
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 0.177
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
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29.643
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 8.054
And the system is very low on memory 4.785
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.193
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.816
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.112
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.438
And I free up some memory 0.472
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.726
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:15.703
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 34.897
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.327
And all tps features are active 7.810
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.810
When I disable the first tps feature 2.512
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.034
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.241
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.579
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.149
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 7.856
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.529
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.028
When I enable the first tps feature 2.398
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.442
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 7.773
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.479
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.035
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.882
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.898
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 10.660
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.111
When I write some files expected to persist 1.332
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.313
# 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" 11.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.673
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 7.777
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 8.003
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.164
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.237
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.652
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 12.228
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.369
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
Tags: @product
39.466
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.732
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.089
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.606
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.682
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.768
When I enable persistence 22.464
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.900
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.023
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.419
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.315
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.466
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.039
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.116
When I cold reboot the computer 5.750
And the computer reboots Tails 32.583
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.357
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.234
Given I enable persistence 13.640
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.106
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.141
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.196
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:3.729
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 7.988
# 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 26.786
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.241
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.154
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
Tags: @product
38.560
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.281
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.956
Then persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.879
And all notifications have disappeared 8.478
When I delete the persistent partition 2.644
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.987
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 8.012
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.042
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.396
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.339
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
56.421
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 8.322
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.623
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.901
And all notifications have disappeared 8.099
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.224
And all tps features are enabled 8.045
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.029
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 2:0.949
And I enable persistence 27.691
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.384
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.633
And persistence is enabled 8.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.909
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 7.698
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.729
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.588
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 8.527
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.082
When I enable persistence 12.488
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.857
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 8.287
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.511
When I try to enable persistence 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.776
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.126
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.151
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.130
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.440
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.275
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.254
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 8.642
And all notifications have disappeared 7.397
# 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" 0.155
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.086
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.117
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.295
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 9.329
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.913
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.240
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.028
When I log in to a new session 7.497
And all notifications have disappeared 8.004
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.084
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000