Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6618 01 Sep 2026, 07:30

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 23:55.733 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.515
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 1:20.475
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.756
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.376
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.366
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 9.173
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.037
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.187
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.952
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 logged in 22.423
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.350
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.169
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.669
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.396
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.699
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.147
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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30.200
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 8.383
And the system is very low on memory 4.540
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.237
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.502
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.120
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.446
And I free up some memory 0.516
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.410
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.520
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 8.949
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.285
And all tps features are active 8.282
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.674
When I disable the first tps feature 3.040
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.323
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.716
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.057
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.724
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 8.267
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.547
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.102
When I enable the first tps feature 2.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.482
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.773
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 2.540
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.991
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.391
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 enabled and logged in 7.862
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 10.336
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.898
When I write some files expected to persist 1.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.234
# 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" 11.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.444
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 7.737
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.341
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.198
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.270
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.180
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.414
And Tor is ready 11.745
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.365
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.053
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.067
Tags: @product
41.250
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 8.322
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.062
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.033
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.259
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 8.404
When I enable persistence 22.763
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.526
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.342
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.431
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.192
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.506
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.735
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 6.162
And the computer reboots Tails 33.223
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.414
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
Given I enable persistence 13.579
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.106
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.204
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.086
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:14.274
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 8.590
# 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 29.206
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.415
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.438
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
40.121
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.430
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.711
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.849
And all notifications have disappeared 8.747
When I delete the persistent partition 3.002
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.306
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.372
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.303
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.343
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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56.863
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 7.986
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.994
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.357
And all notifications have disappeared 7.612
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.299
And all tps features are enabled 8.330
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.679
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 1:59.720
And I enable persistence 28.001
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.221
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.801
And persistence is enabled 8.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.631
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 7.470
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.540
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.572
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 9.150
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.076
When I enable persistence 13.564
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.247
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 8.363
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.508
When I try to enable persistence 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.113
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.326
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.103
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.541
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 8.104
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.647
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 10.202
And all notifications have disappeared 7.534
# 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" 0.307
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.089
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.175
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.387
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 8.522
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.805
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.353
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.172
When I log in to a new session 8.955
And all notifications have disappeared 7.038
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.505
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000