Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6617 31 Aug 2026, 18:40

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 22:21.519 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:26.742
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 1:15.782
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.632
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.268
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.193
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.318
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.199
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.225
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.332
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.638
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.243
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.453
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.557
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.139
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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28.744
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 8.023
And the system is very low on memory 4.735
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.216
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.177
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.078
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.319
And I free up some memory 0.433
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.723
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:55.093
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 20.969
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.225
And all tps features are active 7.187
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.505
When I disable the first tps feature 2.452
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.770
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.183
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.615
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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26.189
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 20.806
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.527
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.030
When I enable the first tps feature 2.454
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.040
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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12.880
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 7.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.424
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.822
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.224
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 7.654
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 9.655
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.878
When I write some files expected to persist 0.942
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.175
# 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" 10.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.986
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 7.641
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 8.056
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.205
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.893
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 11.469
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.324
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.078
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37.380
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.101
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.075
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.677
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.712
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 8.573
When I enable persistence 22.144
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.260
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.774
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.388
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.279
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.459
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.739
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.120
When I cold reboot the computer 5.771
And the computer reboots Tails 32.302
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.336
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
Given I enable persistence 13.129
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.274
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.754
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:2.407
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 8.154
# 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 28.360
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.016
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.544
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
Tags: @product
36.724
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 7.990
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.501
Then persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.336
And all notifications have disappeared 7.973
When I delete the persistent partition 2.599
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.560
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 7.809
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.140
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.390
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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53.638
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 8.364
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.834
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.075
And all notifications have disappeared 8.361
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.236
And all tps features are enabled 7.374
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:35.715
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 1:55.791
And I enable persistence 24.510
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.168
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.504
And persistence is enabled 7.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.594
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.305
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.782
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.636
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 8.272
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.810
When I enable persistence 12.283
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.038
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.757
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 7.835
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.770
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.116
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.111
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.084
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.793
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 8.055
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.157
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 7.635
And all notifications have disappeared 9.183
# 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" 0.138
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.068
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.156
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.075
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.209
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 7.949
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.819
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.354
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.177
When I log in to a new session 7.064
And all notifications have disappeared 6.852
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.118
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000