Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6605 25 Aug 2026, 11:35

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 27:29.949 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.329
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 1:20.238
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.170
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.234
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.036
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 8.962
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.656
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.224
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.085
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 8.619
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.637
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.678
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.425
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.203
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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30.520
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.179
And the system is very low on memory 4.918
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.296
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.577
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.188
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.343
And I free up some memory 0.611
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.347
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.863
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.087
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.266
And all tps features are active 8.149
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.846
When I disable the first tps feature 2.658
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.293
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.495
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.250
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.767
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 8.323
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I disable the first tps feature 2.542
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.520
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.449
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 7.888
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 2.531
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.863
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.979
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.928
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 10.031
And I take note of which tps features are available 9.441
When I write some files expected to persist 1.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.006
# 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" 13.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:14.930
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 36.271
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.129
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 5.704
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.993
And I capture all network traffic 0.013
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 11.980
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.409
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
Tags: @product
42.643
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.878
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.102
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.572
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:5.264
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 8.584
When I enable persistence 29.041
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.321
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.747
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.447
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.326
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.525
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.316
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.204
When I cold reboot the computer 5.934
And the computer reboots Tails 36.695
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.326
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.276
Given I enable persistence 15.781
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.314
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.195
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
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2:14.285
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 9.562
# 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 32.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.415
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.980
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
40.937
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 8.301
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.099
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.920
And all notifications have disappeared 8.644
When I delete the persistent partition 2.616
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:27.446
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 11.726
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.731
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.724
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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1:12.887
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 9.558
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.303
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.873
And all notifications have disappeared 8.195
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.264
And all tps features are enabled 14.646
And all tps features but the first one are active 10.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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5:8.411
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 4:17.762
And I enable persistence 32.048
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.579
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.517
And persistence is enabled 10.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.579
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.948
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.100
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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47.191
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 9.463
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.061
When I enable persistence 17.183
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.782
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 8.725
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.321
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.162
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.100
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.176
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.226
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.410
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 8.804
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.352
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.696
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I log in to a new session 9.069
And all notifications have disappeared 7.238
# 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" 0.234
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.158
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.354
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.306
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.144
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 8.449
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.693
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.342
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.328
When I log in to a new session 8.789
And all notifications have disappeared 8.809
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.460
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000