Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6661 13 Sep 2026, 11:27

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 22:5.609 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:27.134
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 1:16.794
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.204
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.160
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.280
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 8.577
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.277
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.225
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:29.218
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 8.442
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.325
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.210
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 5.193
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.677
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.164
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.309
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 8.042
And the system is very low on memory 3.816
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.161
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.537
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.099
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.320
And I free up some memory 0.506
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.788
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.504
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 8.124
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
And all tps features are active 7.502
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.730
When I disable the first tps feature 2.496
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.384
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.174
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.390
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.035
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12.902
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 7.661
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.030
When I enable the first tps feature 2.399
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
12.485
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 7.671
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.414
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.250
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.071
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 7.583
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 8.002
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.247
When I write some files expected to persist 0.908
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.239
# 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" 11.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.479
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 7.647
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 7.927
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.144
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.969
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 12.099
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.323
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.076
Tags: @product
37.176
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 8.133
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.341
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.937
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 8.130
When I enable persistence 20.530
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.948
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.398
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.403
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.314
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.509
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.794
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
When I cold reboot the computer 5.859
And the computer reboots Tails 33.220
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.329
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.229
Given I enable persistence 12.525
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.291
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.103
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:0.200
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 8.010
# 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 26.674
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.108
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.021
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
Tags: @product
37.122
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 8.201
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.084
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.616
And all notifications have disappeared 8.314
When I delete the persistent partition 2.577
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:15.569
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 7.719
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.155
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.383
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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53.168
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 8.045
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.490
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.272
And all notifications have disappeared 8.197
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.211
And all tps features are enabled 7.160
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:36.003
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 1:55.206
And I enable persistence 25.601
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.250
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.476
And persistence is enabled 7.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.957
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 7.409
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.158
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.635
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 8.080
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.604
When I enable persistence 11.970
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.534
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 7.985
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.799
When I try to enable persistence 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.752
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.216
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.214
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.141
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 21.272
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.464
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 7.976
And all notifications have disappeared 6.743
# 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" 0.180
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.076
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.144
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.125
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.775
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 7.807
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.996
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.285
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.256
When I log in to a new session 7.933
And all notifications have disappeared 7.298
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.065
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000