Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6596 19 Aug 2026, 13:30

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 25:58.642 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.076
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 1:23.295
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.740
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.273
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.751
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 8.941
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.830
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.233
And persistence is disabled 0.074
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.303
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 9.044
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.534
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 5.358
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.636
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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30.221
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 7.956
And the system is very low on memory 5.056
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.214
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.525
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.175
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.353
And I free up some memory 0.585
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.310
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.226
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 8.858
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
And all tps features are active 8.480
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.912
When I disable the first tps feature 2.669
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.649
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.575
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.061
Tags: @product
13.743
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 8.127
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 2.639
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 2.482
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.394
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 7.768
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.612
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.857
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.227
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 8.207
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 11.771
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.310
When I write some files expected to persist 0.936
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" 11.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.838
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 7.723
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 10.306
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.178
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.424
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.806
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 11.791
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.364
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.081
Tags: @product
42.167
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 8.481
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.117
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.387
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:3.010
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 8.927
When I enable persistence 21.921
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.156
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.607
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.274
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.250
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.650
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.357
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.195
When I cold reboot the computer 6.031
And the computer reboots Tails 37.364
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.407
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
Given I enable persistence 18.365
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.097
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.143
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.880
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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2:13.158
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 8.871
# 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 28.915
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.458
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.542
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
40.274
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 8.489
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.461
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.657
And all notifications have disappeared 8.587
When I delete the persistent partition 2.672
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:27.071
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 8.666
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.991
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.993
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
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1:25.642
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 35.466
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.482
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.012
And all notifications have disappeared 8.499
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.461
And all tps features are enabled 7.460
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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4:14.612
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 3:20.927
And I enable persistence 30.836
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.587
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.677
And persistence is enabled 13.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.993
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 8.059
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.374
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.827
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 10.172
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.602
When I enable persistence 14.033
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.457
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 9.309
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.774
When I try to enable persistence 1.315
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.898
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.182
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.267
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.030
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 8.232
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.470
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.108
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 9.140
And all notifications have disappeared 7.371
# 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" 0.141
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.106
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.206
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.114
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.612
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 9.187
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.900
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.392
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.089
When I log in to a new session 8.514
And all notifications have disappeared 8.292
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.182
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000