Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6646 08 Sep 2026, 11:44

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 24:21.998 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.864
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 1:21.212
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.692
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.247
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.872
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 9.234
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.582
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.223
And persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.506
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 9.293
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.848
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
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 1:5.287
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.195
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
29.774
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 8.577
And the system is very low on memory 4.400
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.218
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.530
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.114
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.506
And I free up some memory 0.496
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.883
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.489
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 8.665
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.356
And all tps features are active 8.672
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.739
When I disable the first tps feature 2.574
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.658
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.585
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.377
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.815
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 8.068
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.676
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.598
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.044
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.053
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 8.083
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.644
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.114
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.713
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 8.107
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 12.750
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.877
When I write some files expected to persist 1.073
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" 12.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.038
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 7.737
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 10.227
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.384
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.533
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 12.250
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.417
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product
38.964
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 8.848
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.943
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.239
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.995
When I enable persistence 22.865
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.797
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.542
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.442
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.567
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 0.126
When I cold reboot the computer 6.098
And the computer reboots Tails 36.314
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.278
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.250
Given I enable persistence 15.301
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.122
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.378
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.223
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:22.966
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 8.888
# 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 32.421
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.246
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.122
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
40.630
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 8.848
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.628
Then persistence is disabled 0.175
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.010
And all notifications have disappeared 9.021
When I delete the persistent partition 2.666
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.480
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 8.829
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.274
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.105
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
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1:1.438
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 8.955
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.752
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.702
And all notifications have disappeared 8.501
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.403
And all tps features are enabled 8.960
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.670
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 2:1.317
And I enable persistence 28.896
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.107
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.538
And persistence is enabled 8.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.542
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 7.842
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.139
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.553
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 8.904
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.630
When I enable persistence 15.203
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.861
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 8.948
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.633
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.144
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.360
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.077
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.089
Then persistence is successfully enabled 5.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.093
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 8.462
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.357
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.247
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I log in to a new session 8.446
And all notifications have disappeared 7.675
# 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" 0.166
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.160
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.175
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.185
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.427
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 9.260
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.990
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.270
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.459
When I log in to a new session 10.062
And all notifications have disappeared 7.152
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.188
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000