Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6607 26 Aug 2026, 12:42

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 24:59.736 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.663
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 1:22.051
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.621
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.292
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.718
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 8.646
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.021
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.218
And persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.084
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 9.247
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.251
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.647
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.509
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.079
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.149
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
32.086
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.605
And the system is very low on memory 4.793
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.224
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.558
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.293
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.483
And I free up some memory 0.716
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.352
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.858
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 9.117
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
And all tps features are active 8.468
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.338
When I disable the first tps feature 2.623
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.503
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.825
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.006
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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27.193
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 21.614
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.629
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.514
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.989
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 8.192
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.545
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.075
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.904
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 8.226
And the network is plugged 0.555
And Tor is ready 11.696
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.653
When I write some files expected to persist 1.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.626
# 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" 12.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:56.351
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 21.639
And the network is plugged 0.045
And Tor is ready 9.773
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.565
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.222
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 11.335
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.387
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.100
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42.656
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.896
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.899
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.208
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 8.953
When I enable persistence 24.213
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.807
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.714
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.452
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.360
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.600
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.338
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
When I cold reboot the computer 6.219
And the computer reboots Tails 34.316
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.233
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.165
Given I enable persistence 13.958
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.346
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.187
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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2:14.206
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 8.772
# 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 31.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.385
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.125
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
Tags: @product
40.108
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 8.704
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.667
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.560
And all notifications have disappeared 8.084
When I delete the persistent partition 2.676
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.809
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 8.435
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.280
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.819
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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1:2.684
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 8.556
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.506
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.769
And all notifications have disappeared 9.037
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.266
And all tps features are enabled 8.237
And all tps features but the first one are active 11.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.164
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 2:5.713
And I enable persistence 29.018
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.924
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.526
And persistence is enabled 8.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.314
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 7.983
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.805
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.451
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 8.866
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.385
When I enable persistence 14.717
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.788
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
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.398
When I try to enable persistence 1.256
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.416
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.558
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.247
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.944
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 21.698
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.265
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 9.128
And all notifications have disappeared 7.932
# 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 0.093
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.277
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.224
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.549
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 8.208
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.890
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.461
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.445
When I log in to a new session 8.762
And all notifications have disappeared 8.022
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.732
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000