Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6640 05 Sep 2026, 11:34

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 24:3.690 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.973
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 1:22.178
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.815
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.208
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.173
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 22.244
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.757
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.206
And persistence is disabled 0.066
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.337
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 logged in 9.252
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.372
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.028
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.369
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.934
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
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30.781
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.489
And the system is very low on memory 4.952
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.476
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.216
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.325
And I free up some memory 0.518
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.575
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:50.756
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 8.704
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.432
And all tps features are active 8.322
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.537
When I disable the first tps feature 2.460
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.424
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.624
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.460
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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13.589
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 8.227
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.412
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.451
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 7.946
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 2.552
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.778
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.330
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 7.838
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 10.542
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.009
When I write some files expected to persist 1.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.275
# 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" 11.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.502
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 8.243
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 8.388
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.301
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.320
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 12.472
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.321
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.092
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
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41.402
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.708
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 14.403
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:55.665
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 8.719
When I enable persistence 23.667
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.816
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.307
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.358
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.304
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.590
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.524
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.113
When I cold reboot the computer 6.100
And the computer reboots Tails 34.529
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.303
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.232
Given I enable persistence 14.301
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.295
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.262
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
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2:9.741
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 8.977
# 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 29.386
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.420
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.210
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
41.922
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 8.921
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.720
Then persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.150
And all notifications have disappeared 9.057
When I delete the persistent partition 2.664
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:23.561
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 8.685
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.784
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.790
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
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1:0.472
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 9.445
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.750
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.968
And all notifications have disappeared 7.548
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.254
And all tps features are enabled 10.181
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.163
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 2:1.606
And I enable persistence 27.669
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.163
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.692
And persistence is enabled 9.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.172
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 7.703
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.008
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.397
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 9.146
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.541
When I enable persistence 14.326
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.991
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 8.762
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.897
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.806
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.251
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.096
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.088
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 8.475
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.600
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I log in to a new session 8.210
And all notifications have disappeared 7.997
# 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" 0.230
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.077
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.162
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.040
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.213
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.363
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.609
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.328
When I try to enable persistence 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.884
When I log in to a new session 8.271
And all notifications have disappeared 7.591
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.156
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000