Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6590 18 Aug 2026, 19:00

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 24:6.614 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.105
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 1:19.642
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.450
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.239
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.709
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 9.083
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.610
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.232
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.689
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 9.379
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.416
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.486
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.038
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.031
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.150
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
Tags: @product
44.851
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 22.119
And the system is very low on memory 5.138
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.247
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.815
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.146
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.357
And I free up some memory 0.567
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.418
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.100
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 8.637
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.336
And all tps features are active 8.153
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.811
When I disable the first tps feature 2.590
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.341
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.352
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.309
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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13.822
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 8.112
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.170
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.143
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.659
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.654
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 7.959
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.554
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.967
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.783
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 8.155
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 9.964
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.252
When I write some files expected to persist 1.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.256
# 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" 11.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.579
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 7.808
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 9.889
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.466
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.232
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 11.419
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.356
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.034
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
Tags: @product
41.979
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 8.387
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.263
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.396
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 8.457
When I enable persistence 23.326
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.728
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.707
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.255
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.147
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.493
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.572
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
When I cold reboot the computer 6.112
And the computer reboots Tails 34.109
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.354
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.314
Given I enable persistence 14.612
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.100
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.185
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.612
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:7.581
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 8.473
# 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 29.520
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.434
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.585
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
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41.184
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 8.595
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.552
Then persistence is disabled 0.140
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.981
And all notifications have disappeared 8.012
When I delete the persistent partition 2.650
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:24.953
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 8.588
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.789
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.288
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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1:0.976
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 8.477
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.717
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.417
And all notifications have disappeared 8.887
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.259
And all tps features are enabled 8.429
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.006
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:6.770
And I enable persistence 27.321
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.971
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.580
And persistence is enabled 8.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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33.514
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 8.011
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.957
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.322
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 8.710
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.162
When I enable persistence 13.980
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.926
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 8.342
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.877
When I try to enable persistence 1.301
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.597
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.100
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.298
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.094
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.289
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.855
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 8.254
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.660
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 7.731
And all notifications have disappeared 8.238
# 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" 0.140
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.109
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.275
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.142
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.620
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 8.160
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.598
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.358
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.477
When I log in to a new session 9.085
And all notifications have disappeared 8.687
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.150
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000