Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6634 03 Sep 2026, 16:46

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 24:8.878 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.991
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 1:18.851
And I update the APT lists using apt 11.753
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.556
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.939
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 9.014
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.515
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.232
And persistence is disabled 0.079
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.300
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 8.762
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.183
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.562
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.120
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.175
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
Tags: @product
31.836
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 9.000
And the system is very low on memory 4.992
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.268
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.941
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.133
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.402
And I free up some memory 0.692
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.348
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.701
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.900
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.366
And all tps features are active 8.233
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.831
When I disable the first tps feature 3.037
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.465
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.578
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.951
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
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13.769
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 8.154
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.583
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.578
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.893
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 7.950
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.111
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.633
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.066
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.559
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 7.978
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.703
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.596
When I write some files expected to persist 1.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.278
# 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" 11.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.269
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 7.966
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 9.103
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.564
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.152
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 11.478
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.507
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.084
Tags: @product
40.095
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 8.488
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.166
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.993
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 8.463
When I enable persistence 23.672
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.986
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.382
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.280
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.148
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.646
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.868
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.140
When I cold reboot the computer 5.986
And the computer reboots Tails 34.538
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.253
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
Given I enable persistence 14.650
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.106
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.417
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.078
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:8.560
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 8.400
# 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 27.719
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.383
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.629
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
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40.429
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 8.619
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.322
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.727
And all notifications have disappeared 8.532
When I delete the persistent partition 2.838
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.993
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 8.523
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.487
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.564
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
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1:0.900
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 8.606
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.474
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.895
And all notifications have disappeared 8.735
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.366
And all tps features are enabled 9.682
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:2.109
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 2:10.357
And I enable persistence 32.042
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.136
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.514
And persistence is enabled 11.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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34.053
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.839
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.698
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.935
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 8.917
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.040
When I enable persistence 16.889
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 11.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.550
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 8.449
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.971
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.892
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.185
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.229
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.757
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 8.405
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.367
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 9.034
And all notifications have disappeared 7.850
# 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" 0.168
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.086
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.157
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.333
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.235
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 8.194
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.376
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.322
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.515
When I log in to a new session 8.328
And all notifications have disappeared 7.711
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.787
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000