Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6611 27 Aug 2026, 11:36

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 24:18.231 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.005
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.519
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.309
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.320
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.422
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 8.734
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.578
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.267
And persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.758
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 9.942
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.379
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.696
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.305
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.055
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.158
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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31.100
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 8.725
And the system is very low on memory 4.830
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.253
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.749
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.471
And I free up some memory 0.569
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.344
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:53.174
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 8.932
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.352
And all tps features are active 8.583
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.931
When I disable the first tps feature 2.590
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.699
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.671
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.911
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
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13.736
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 8.263
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I disable the first tps feature 2.537
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.517
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.688
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 8.082
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 2.525
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.898
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.594
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 8.253
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 26.037
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.530
When I write some files expected to persist 1.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.460
# 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" 12.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:55.243
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 21.697
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 9.676
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.329
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.980
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.572
And Tor is ready 11.288
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.342
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.067
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40.980
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 8.796
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.101
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.972
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.698
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 9.138
When I enable persistence 22.151
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.840
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.145
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.497
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.355
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.538
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.903
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
When I cold reboot the computer 5.917
And the computer reboots Tails 33.957
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.338
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.198
Given I enable persistence 12.903
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.186
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.209
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:11.534
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 8.707
# 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 28.349
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.493
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.549
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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39.601
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 8.990
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.972
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.541
And all notifications have disappeared 7.842
When I delete the persistent partition 2.821
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.966
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 8.985
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.532
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.180
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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1:0.821
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 8.651
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.733
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.553
And all notifications have disappeared 8.769
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.242
And all tps features are enabled 7.851
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.908
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 2:1.544
And I enable persistence 27.979
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.041
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.559
And persistence is enabled 7.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.114
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 7.575
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.933
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.575
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 8.942
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.315
When I enable persistence 13.880
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.096
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.361
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 7.987
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.825
When I try to enable persistence 1.381
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.889
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.138
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.093
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.547
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.414
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.149
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 8.708
And all notifications have disappeared 7.207
# 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" 0.198
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.083
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.229
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.247
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.397
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 8.358
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.694
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.064
When I log in to a new session 8.837
And all notifications have disappeared 7.495
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.236
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000