Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6645 08 Sep 2026, 07:37

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 24:34.494 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.631
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 1:21.873
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.718
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.255
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.937
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 9.488
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.993
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
And persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.122
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 22.572
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.114
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.009
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.739
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.200
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.059
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30.216
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.449
And the system is very low on memory 4.098
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.167
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.826
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.633
And I free up some memory 0.709
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.187
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.672
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 9.171
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.401
And all tps features are active 9.557
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.098
When I disable the first tps feature 3.546
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.649
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.378
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.922
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
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13.791
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.219
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I disable the first tps feature 2.667
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.497
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.625
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 7.888
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 2.534
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.013
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.738
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 21.862
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.104
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.522
When I write some files expected to persist 1.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.455
# 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" 12.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.516
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 enabled and logged in 8.472
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.580
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.372
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.233
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 12.078
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.405
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.048
Tags: @product
40.866
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 9.328
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.103
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.752
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:1.907
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 8.617
When I enable persistence 26.053
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.207
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.758
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.500
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.458
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.526
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.398
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.110
When I cold reboot the computer 6.177
And the computer reboots Tails 35.868
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.338
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
Given I enable persistence 14.646
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.144
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.648
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:7.988
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 8.646
# 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 28.782
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.460
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.135
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
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39.587
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 8.989
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.465
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.749
And all notifications have disappeared 8.157
When I delete the persistent partition 2.805
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.338
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 8.334
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.452
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.240
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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1:2.418
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 8.403
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.811
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.945
And all notifications have disappeared 8.619
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.306
And all tps features are enabled 9.760
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:43.951
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 1:58.226
And I enable persistence 27.446
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.833
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.611
And persistence is enabled 8.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.684
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 7.896
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.117
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.721
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 8.946
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.352
When I enable persistence 14.005
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.092
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.474
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 8.587
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.811
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.505
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.132
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.320
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.111
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.114
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 8.445
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.392
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.116
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I log in to a new session 8.644
And all notifications have disappeared 7.323
# 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" 0.270
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.102
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.297
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.400
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.189
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 8.256
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.390
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.302
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.212
When I log in to a new session 8.768
And all notifications have disappeared 9.022
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.257
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000