Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6638 04 Sep 2026, 07:26

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 23:14.827 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.047
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 1:16.433
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.634
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.232
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.250
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.634
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.982
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.221
And persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.317
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 8.708
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.244
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.270
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.263
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.202
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
Tags: @product
29.670
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 8.198
And the system is very low on memory 4.559
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.292
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.326
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.128
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.454
And I free up some memory 0.746
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.922
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.715
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.162
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.341
And all tps features are active 8.838
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.580
When I disable the first tps feature 2.430
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.617
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.434
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.918
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.735
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 8.349
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.519
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.425
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.406
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 7.797
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.506
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.926
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.941
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 7.845
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 9.971
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.056
When I write some files expected to persist 1.038
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.314
# 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" 11.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.488
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 20.820
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 10.271
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.133
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.360
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.572
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.756
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.362
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.051
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
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38.443
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 8.345
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.083
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.686
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.027
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 8.909
When I enable persistence 22.863
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.838
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.540
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.277
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.208
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.570
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.249
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
When I cold reboot the computer 5.875
And the computer reboots Tails 33.696
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.186
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.160
Given I enable persistence 13.515
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.063
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.146
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.683
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:10.258
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 8.416
# 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 28.789
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.437
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.370
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
39.009
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 8.538
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.324
Then persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.023
And all notifications have disappeared 8.088
When I delete the persistent partition 2.627
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:20.972
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 8.375
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.501
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.787
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
58.469
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 8.444
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.769
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.074
And all notifications have disappeared 8.445
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.324
And all tps features are enabled 9.026
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:43.112
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 1:59.219
And I enable persistence 27.160
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.133
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.705
And persistence is enabled 7.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.424
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 7.261
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.383
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.041
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 8.582
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.492
When I enable persistence 13.726
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.874
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 8.307
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.211
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.554
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.081
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.166
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.137
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.402
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 7.855
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.495
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 9.232
And all notifications have disappeared 6.885
# 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" 0.151
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.079
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.169
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.001
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.216
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 7.993
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.428
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.271
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.163
When I log in to a new session 8.252
And all notifications have disappeared 7.871
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.169
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000