Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6606 26 Aug 2026, 11:38

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 25:14.336 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.712
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 1:20.283
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.319
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.255
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.984
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 9.145
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.802
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.225
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.933
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 8.994
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.132
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 5.518
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.634
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.187
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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31.922
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 9.356
And the system is very low on memory 5.056
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.626
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.168
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.442
And I free up some memory 0.523
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.536
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.377
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 8.640
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.330
And all tps features are active 8.861
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.782
When I disable the first tps feature 2.457
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.791
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.464
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.806
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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13.534
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 7.929
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.651
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.106
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.475
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.731
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 7.890
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.101
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.653
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.915
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
55.943
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 8.720
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 12.414
And I take note of which tps features are available 15.749
When I write some files expected to persist 1.009
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.452
# 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" 12.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:59.057
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 23.292
And the network is plugged 0.079
And Tor is ready 10.622
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.297
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.290
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 11.778
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 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.069
Tags: @product
38.867
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 8.587
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.091
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.563
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.055
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 9.172
When I enable persistence 25.425
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.023
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.227
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.396
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.328
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.502
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.840
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
When I cold reboot the computer 5.832
And the computer reboots Tails 35.363
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.188
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.162
Given I enable persistence 13.552
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.315
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.387
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:9.677
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 8.659
# 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 28.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.281
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.254
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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39.283
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 9.002
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.437
Then persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.318
And all notifications have disappeared 8.395
When I delete the persistent partition 2.666
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.826
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.241
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.397
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.883
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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1:2.593
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 8.273
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.338
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.636
And all notifications have disappeared 8.537
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.255
And all tps features are enabled 8.876
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:39.811
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 2:48.763
And I enable persistence 31.987
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.352
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.532
And persistence is enabled 10.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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34.300
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 7.831
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.908
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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45.291
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 8.385
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.635
When I enable persistence 16.180
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.007
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 8.404
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.224
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.467
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.101
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.000
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 8.168
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.000
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.105
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 8.633
And all notifications have disappeared 8.319
# 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" 0.103
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.148
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.285
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.211
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.423
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 7.738
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.946
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.240
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.121
When I log in to a new session 8.206
And all notifications have disappeared 7.316
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.878
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000