Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6625 02 Sep 2026, 13:18

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 23:37.139 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.089
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 1:21.808
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.180
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.212
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.217
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 8.537
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.016
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.259
And persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.461
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 8.988
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.205
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
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 1:1.221
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.157
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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31.400
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 5.040
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.157
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.264
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.136
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.409
And I free up some memory 0.734
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.572
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.628
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 8.443
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.279
And all tps features are active 8.189
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.177
When I disable the first tps feature 2.514
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.188
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.334
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.540
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
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13.877
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 8.498
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.545
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.427
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.166
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 enabled and logged in 7.661
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.483
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.835
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.452
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 7.962
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 9.833
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.791
When I write some files expected to persist 0.924
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.287
# 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" 11.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.377
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 7.756
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 9.758
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.314
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.685
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 11.160
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.345
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
Tags: @product
51.780
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 21.477
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.088
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.423
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.186
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 8.555
When I enable persistence 23.304
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.982
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.747
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.222
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.285
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.561
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.450
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.117
When I cold reboot the computer 6.052
And the computer reboots Tails 34.447
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.308
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.220
Given I enable persistence 15.340
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.376
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.994
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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2:11.725
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 8.647
# 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 29.905
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.540
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.265
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.963
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 8.487
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.303
Then persistence is disabled 0.077
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.729
And all notifications have disappeared 8.415
When I delete the persistent partition 2.671
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.058
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 7.924
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.529
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.316
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
59.077
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 8.355
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.399
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.842
And all notifications have disappeared 8.183
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.239
And all tps features are enabled 7.985
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.603
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 2:1.426
And I enable persistence 27.065
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.431
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.454
And persistence is enabled 8.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.910
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 7.416
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.035
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.082
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 8.676
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.178
When I enable persistence 13.349
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.835
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 8.334
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.760
When I try to enable persistence 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.587
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.122
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.120
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.217
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.139
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.400
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.133
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.975
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.115
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.929
And all notifications have disappeared 7.171
# 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" 0.146
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.138
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.183
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.024
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.101
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 11.238
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.263
When I try to enable persistence 1.149
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.362
When I log in to a new session 8.174
And all notifications have disappeared 6.830
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.595
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000