Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6648 08 Sep 2026, 18:12

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 24:21.589 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.521
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 1:22.849
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.634
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.245
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.090
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 9.853
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.101
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.412
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.771
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 9.188
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.147
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.437
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 5.906
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.487
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.183
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
Tags: @product
47.795
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 23.369
And the system is very low on memory 4.556
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.241
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.433
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.124
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.596
And I free up some memory 0.651
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.775
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.153
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 9.351
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.260
And all tps features are active 8.543
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.875
When I disable the first tps feature 2.420
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.063
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.318
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.647
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
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14.148
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 8.640
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.043
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I disable the first tps feature 2.598
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.070
When I enable the first tps feature 2.505
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.357
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 7.894
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.619
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.657
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.605
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 8.658
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 8.921
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.422
When I write some files expected to persist 1.237
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.444
# 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" 12.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.791
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 7.874
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 10.147
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.304
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.675
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 11.000
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.412
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
Tags: @product
42.867
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.380
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 14.950
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.746
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 9.385
When I enable persistence 23.809
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.928
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.576
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.498
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.194
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.616
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.584
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
When I cold reboot the computer 5.863
And the computer reboots Tails 33.720
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.320
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.253
Given I enable persistence 14.833
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.089
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.388
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.428
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
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2:14.337
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 8.653
# 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 30.723
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.261
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.667
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
Tags: @product
39.570
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 8.051
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.278
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.128
And all notifications have disappeared 8.173
When I delete the persistent partition 2.604
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.203
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 7.754
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.041
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.434
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.758
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
59.993
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 8.879
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.165
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.424
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.266
And all notifications have disappeared 7.438
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.325
And all tps features are enabled 8.651
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.519
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 2:0.402
And I enable persistence 27.473
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.645
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.536
And persistence is enabled 7.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.741
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.013
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 8.385
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.866
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.210
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 8.437
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.933
When I enable persistence 14.407
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.817
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 8.586
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.365
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.381
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.561
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.104
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.334
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.321
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.543
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.346
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.628
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.097
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I log in to a new session 8.963
And all notifications have disappeared 8.606
# 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" 0.208
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.395
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.233
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.294
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.024
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 8.130
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 1.337
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.901
When I log in to a new session 9.687
And all notifications have disappeared 7.982
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.313
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000