Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6643 07 Sep 2026, 20:05

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 23:51.403 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.519
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 1:20.745
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.614
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.266
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.778
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.018
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.903
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.258
And persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:3.512
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 35.913
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.232
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.540
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.597
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.902
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.165
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
29.740
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 8.561
And the system is very low on memory 4.427
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.206
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.532
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.094
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.421
And I free up some memory 0.558
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.880
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.599
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 8.315
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.236
And all tps features are active 8.877
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.168
When I disable the first tps feature 2.494
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.815
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.518
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.035
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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13.457
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.206
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.487
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.603
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 7.912
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I disable the first tps feature 2.518
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.948
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.278
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 7.684
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 9.695
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.809
When I write some files expected to persist 1.120
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.323
# 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" 11.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:41.859
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 7.885
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 8.984
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.505
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.506
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 12.250
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.337
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.121
Tags: @product
39.946
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 8.771
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.133
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.651
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:53.897
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 8.910
When I enable persistence 21.887
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.575
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.872
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.436
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.152
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.578
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.213
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
When I cold reboot the computer 5.840
And the computer reboots Tails 34.223
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.352
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.154
Given I enable persistence 13.426
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.181
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.761
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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2:10.239
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 8.441
# 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 28.680
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.266
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.311
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
Tags: @product
40.129
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 8.385
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.781
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.062
And all notifications have disappeared 8.753
When I delete the persistent partition 2.755
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.659
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 8.241
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.575
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.542
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
58.980
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 8.804
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.515
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.233
And all notifications have disappeared 7.859
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.275
And all tps features are enabled 8.872
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:41.439
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 1:57.419
And I enable persistence 27.219
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.394
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.566
And persistence is enabled 8.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.119
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 7.549
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.928
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.685
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.236
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.077
When I enable persistence 13.471
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.297
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.480
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.588
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.954
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.235
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.110
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.737
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 8.176
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.104
When I try to enable persistence 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.232
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.557
And all notifications have disappeared 8.049
# 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" 0.125
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.085
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.243
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.116
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.921
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 8.283
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.045
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.351
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.413
When I log in to a new session 8.798
And all notifications have disappeared 6.509
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.398
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000