Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6637 03 Sep 2026, 20:03

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 24:42.989 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.157
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 1:19.256
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.760
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.280
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.186
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 8.951
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.175
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.236
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.912
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 8.905
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.842
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.460
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.066
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
Tags: @product
43.540
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 21.763
And the system is very low on memory 4.462
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.210
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.318
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.181
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.498
And I free up some memory 0.478
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.585
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.659
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 8.836
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
And all tps features are active 9.029
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.933
When I disable the first tps feature 2.601
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.790
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.901
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.058
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
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13.951
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 8.659
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.044
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 2.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.043
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.403
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.849
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 8.259
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
And I disable the first tps feature 2.522
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.907
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.897
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 8.077
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 11.557
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.362
When I write some files expected to persist 1.007
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.332
# 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" 11.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.906
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 8.089
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 9.834
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.683
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.074
And I capture all network traffic 0.020
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 12.430
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.383
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.057
Tags: @product
42.615
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.201
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.109
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.872
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:0.529
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 8.718
When I enable persistence 25.286
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.418
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.731
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.414
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.337
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.620
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.560
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
When I cold reboot the computer 6.399
And the computer reboots Tails 35.250
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.364
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.292
Given I enable persistence 15.490
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.072
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.352
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.946
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
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2:5.471
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.310
# 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 25.418
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.216
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.005
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
40.940
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 8.402
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.721
Then persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.448
And all notifications have disappeared 8.453
When I delete the persistent partition 2.597
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.091
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 enabled and logged in 22.024
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.002
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.800
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.051
Tags: @product
58.135
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 8.367
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.547
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.246
And all notifications have disappeared 8.234
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.264
And all tps features are enabled 7.468
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:25.482
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 2:36.686
And I enable persistence 30.310
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.470
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.653
And persistence is enabled 10.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.138
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 7.544
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.122
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.111
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 8.620
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.223
When I enable persistence 13.521
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.307
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 7.869
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.450
When I try to enable persistence 1.370
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.393
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.170
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.128
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.778
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 8.728
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.116
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I log in to a new session 8.745
And all notifications have disappeared 7.140
# 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" 0.115
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.081
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.191
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.043
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.324
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 8.060
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.785
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.333
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.253
When I log in to a new session 7.984
And all notifications have disappeared 7.410
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.477
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000