Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6598 19 Aug 2026, 19:55

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 23:4.954 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.012
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 1:18.531
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.648
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.204
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.350
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 8.181
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.653
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.215
And persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:28.914
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 8.662
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.106
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 4.046
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.553
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.136
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
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30.669
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 8.232
And the system is very low on memory 5.772
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.151
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.591
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.104
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.540
And I free up some memory 0.472
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.740
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:9.069
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 34.259
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.255
And all tps features are active 8.007
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.544
When I disable the first tps feature 2.552
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.343
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.283
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.274
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
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13.040
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 7.689
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.554
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.043
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.413
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.000
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 7.552
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 2.477
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.793
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
53.598
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 20.546
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 9.763
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.283
When I write some files expected to persist 0.808
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.322
# 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" 10.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:36.831
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 7.616
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 9.892
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.091
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.245
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.415
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 11.959
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.389
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.073
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36.384
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 8.093
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.063
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.954
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.951
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 8.415
When I enable persistence 20.892
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.094
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.912
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.209
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.150
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.444
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.178
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
When I cold reboot the computer 5.935
And the computer reboots Tails 33.156
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.295
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.231
Given I enable persistence 12.278
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.090
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.139
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.293
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:2.874
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 8.131
# 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 27.774
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.136
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.496
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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36.216
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 7.910
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.668
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.966
And all notifications have disappeared 8.238
When I delete the persistent partition 2.107
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.164
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 7.722
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.289
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.922
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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53.257
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 7.731
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.857
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.375
And all notifications have disappeared 8.342
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.264
And all tps features are enabled 7.112
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:2.751
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 2:17.577
And I enable persistence 29.034
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.480
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.458
And persistence is enabled 9.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.913
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 7.319
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.130
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.080
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 8.122
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.146
When I enable persistence 12.453
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.038
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.194
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 7.835
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.985
When I try to enable persistence 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.105
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.358
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.128
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.089
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.079
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.647
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 7.885
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.084
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 7.616
And all notifications have disappeared 8.026
# 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" 0.161
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.124
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.204
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.105
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.028
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 7.841
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.691
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.232
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.346
When I log in to a new session 6.754
And all notifications have disappeared 6.788
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.098
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000