Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6616 31 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 24:8.157 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:48.895
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 1:33.934
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.957
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.287
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.782
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 8.460
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.298
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.203
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.108
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.441
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.350
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.388
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.297
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.159
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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30.829
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 8.579
And the system is very low on memory 4.670
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.224
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.179
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.125
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.351
And I free up some memory 0.504
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.117
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:53.567
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 8.674
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.297
And all tps features are active 9.782
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.891
When I disable the first tps feature 2.476
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.953
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.730
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.663
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.453
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 8.151
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.425
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.804
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 8.213
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.620
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.785
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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44.313
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 7.653
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 10.179
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.559
When I write some files expected to persist 1.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.665
# 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" 12.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.898
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 8.001
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 9.829
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.482
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.199
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 12.434
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.443
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.137
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.121
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41.969
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 9.021
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.090
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.513
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.931
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 8.796
When I enable persistence 24.299
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.576
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.570
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.455
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.300
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.464
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.661
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
When I cold reboot the computer 6.119
And the computer reboots Tails 35.793
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.318
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.276
Given I enable persistence 14.050
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.325
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.548
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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2:10.080
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 8.616
# 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 31.291
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.388
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.837
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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38.332
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 8.060
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.553
Then persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.344
And all notifications have disappeared 8.407
When I delete the persistent partition 2.634
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.081
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 8.093
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.996
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.696
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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57.551
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 8.234
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.557
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.929
And all notifications have disappeared 7.487
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.313
And all tps features are enabled 8.558
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.777
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 2:5.579
And I enable persistence 30.069
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.186
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.625
And persistence is enabled 10.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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33.721
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 7.826
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.384
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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44.839
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 8.633
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.963
When I enable persistence 15.279
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.091
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 8.193
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.712
When I try to enable persistence 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.083
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.421
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.209
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.955
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 8.796
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.314
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 9.166
And all notifications have disappeared 7.279
# 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" 0.137
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.098
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.364
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.462
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.170
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 8.854
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.692
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.383
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.745
When I log in to a new session 8.981
And all notifications have disappeared 7.827
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.319
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000