Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6647 08 Sep 2026, 12:32

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 24:32.501 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.836
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 1:23.328
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.534
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.206
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.681
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.799
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.502
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.240
And persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:53.267
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 22.669
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.358
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.044
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 5.730
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.139
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.152
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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31.399
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 8.426
And the system is very low on memory 4.617
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.154
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.593
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.161
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.342
And I free up some memory 0.516
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.471
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:56.102
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 8.789
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.393
And all tps features are active 8.762
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.419
When I disable the first tps feature 2.756
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.616
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.831
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.228
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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14.488
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 8.563
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 3.050
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.436
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.763
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 8.013
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.119
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.595
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.920
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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46.281
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 7.925
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 13.051
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.921
When I write some files expected to persist 1.337
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.424
# 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" 11.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:55.345
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 21.241
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 10.276
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.421
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.324
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 12.353
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.357
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
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41.805
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 8.539
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.145
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.764
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.424
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 8.986
When I enable persistence 22.692
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.579
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.580
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.237
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.348
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.647
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.523
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
When I cold reboot the computer 6.016
And the computer reboots Tails 33.921
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.320
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.147
Given I enable persistence 14.647
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.113
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.179
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.196
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:15.165
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 8.532
# 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 29.323
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.437
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.510
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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41.929
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 9.036
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.976
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.125
And all notifications have disappeared 8.705
When I delete the persistent partition 2.711
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:24.248
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 8.493
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.743
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.768
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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1:0.382
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 8.788
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.427
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.194
And all notifications have disappeared 8.582
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.353
And all tps features are enabled 8.639
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.811
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 2:1.574
And I enable persistence 27.022
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.038
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.565
And persistence is enabled 8.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.242
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 8.013
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.638
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.313
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 9.005
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.433
When I enable persistence 15.369
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.048
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 9.472
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.527
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.481
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.076
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.098
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.189
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 8.060
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.262
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 9.453
And all notifications have disappeared 7.233
# 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" 0.202
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.090
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.236
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.301
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.775
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 8.626
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.862
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.315
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.807
When I log in to a new session 8.578
And all notifications have disappeared 7.497
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.238
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000