Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6586 17 Aug 2026, 17:59

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 23:32.642 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.984
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 1:20.297
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.652
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.229
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.374
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 13.632
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.247
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.218
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.309
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.232
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.321
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.753
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.144
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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31.873
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 8.902
And the system is very low on memory 4.299
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.044
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 2.643
And I free up some memory 0.614
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.047
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.579
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 8.387
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.325
And all tps features are active 8.806
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.826
When I disable the first tps feature 2.442
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.999
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.762
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.417
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
13.863
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 8.355
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.585
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 2.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.933
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 8.246
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 2.568
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.863
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.656
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 8.252
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 10.326
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.459
When I write some files expected to persist 1.310
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.377
# 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" 11.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.043
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 8.547
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 8.864
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.404
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.819
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 12.551
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.435
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.104
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product
40.871
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 9.372
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.419
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.323
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 8.952
When I enable persistence 21.764
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.076
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.345
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.270
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.382
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.443
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.636
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
When I cold reboot the computer 6.081
And the computer reboots Tails 33.672
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.338
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.134
Given I enable persistence 12.675
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.082
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.290
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.896
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:5.909
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.765
# 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 26.929
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.237
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.101
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.033
Tags: @product
40.760
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 8.791
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.327
Then persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.867
And all notifications have disappeared 8.769
When I delete the persistent partition 2.634
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.918
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 8.852
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.471
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.299
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.033
Tags: @product
58.639
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 8.452
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.404
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.285
And all notifications have disappeared 8.205
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.328
And all tps features are enabled 7.795
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.190
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 2:0.626
And I enable persistence 28.173
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.770
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.488
And persistence is enabled 8.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.042
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 7.718
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.706
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.179
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 8.617
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.130
When I enable persistence 13.643
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.383
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 7.968
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.991
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.309
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.203
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.094
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.650
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 8.257
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.053
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.095
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 9.479
And all notifications have disappeared 7.703
# 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" 0.147
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.082
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.147
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.528
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.246
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 7.995
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.182
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.259
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.757
When I log in to a new session 8.855
And all notifications have disappeared 6.624
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.579
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000