Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6639 04 Sep 2026, 11:21

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 22:50.689 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.451
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 1:14.346
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.281
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.184
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.035
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 8.254
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.635
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.210
And persistence is disabled 0.070
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.598
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 8.570
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.777
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.127
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.573
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.133
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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29.020
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 7.783
And the system is very low on memory 4.710
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.184
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.568
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.368
And I free up some memory 0.582
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.671
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.520
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 8.302
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
And all tps features are active 7.523
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.645
When I disable the first tps feature 2.452
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.776
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.273
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.682
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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26.179
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 20.834
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 2.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.784
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 7.396
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.449
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.782
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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41.309
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 7.551
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 9.545
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.572
When I write some files expected to persist 0.978
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.213
# 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" 11.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.251
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 7.745
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 8.015
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 5.229
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.746
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 10.780
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.064
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37.733
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 8.323
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.064
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:59.781
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 21.368
When I enable persistence 22.108
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.454
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.852
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.226
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.316
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.467
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.012
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 5.840
And the computer reboots Tails 32.296
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.295
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.225
Given I enable persistence 12.633
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.055
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.139
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.236
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.033
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2:3.798
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 8.411
# 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 27.808
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.327
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.291
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
37.977
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 8.236
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.297
Then persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.894
And all notifications have disappeared 7.529
When I delete the persistent partition 2.681
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.990
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 8.362
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.158
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.239
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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54.531
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 7.845
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.851
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.698
And all notifications have disappeared 8.230
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.280
And all tps features are enabled 7.933
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.776
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 1:57.097
And I enable persistence 26.157
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.798
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.533
And persistence is enabled 7.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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41.462
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 20.189
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.841
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.696
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 8.372
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.296
When I enable persistence 12.451
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.036
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.316
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 8.126
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.902
When I try to enable persistence 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.225
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.223
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.095
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.625
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 7.741
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.827
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 7.309
And all notifications have disappeared 8.106
# 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" 0.201
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.052
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.170
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.005
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.847
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 8.214
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.785
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.296
When I try to enable persistence 1.155
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.340
When I log in to a new session 7.833
And all notifications have disappeared 7.362
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.088
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000