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test_Tails_ISO_stable 6663 14 Sep 2026, 11:41

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 23:13.608 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.832
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 1:18.041
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.758
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.222
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.257
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 8.732
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.892
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.188
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.228
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 8.868
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.280
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.153
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.422
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.153
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.141
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
Tags: @product
30.760
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 7.956
And the system is very low on memory 4.275
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.167
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.711
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.121
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.380
And I free up some memory 0.446
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.659
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.411
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 8.523
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
And all tps features are active 7.862
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.892
When I disable the first tps feature 2.519
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.295
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.700
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.608
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.435
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 7.937
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.641
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.452
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.724
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 enabled and logged in 7.727
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.981
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.846
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.473
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 7.901
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 8.281
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.369
When I write some files expected to persist 0.976
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" 11.462
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.144
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 7.777
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 8.494
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.290
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.979
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 10.848
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.374
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
39.604
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 8.862
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.316
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.670
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.003
When I enable persistence 22.008
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.701
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.321
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.260
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.317
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.530
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.586
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.121
When I cold reboot the computer 5.796
And the computer reboots Tails 33.504
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.192
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.208
Given I enable persistence 13.727
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.089
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.305
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.865
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.024
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2:7.487
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 8.287
# 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 29.237
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.201
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.714
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.715
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.356
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.263
Then persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.453
And all notifications have disappeared 8.498
When I delete the persistent partition 2.800
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:32.206
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 21.362
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.465
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.133
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
59.148
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.288
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.971
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.339
And all notifications have disappeared 8.388
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.228
And all tps features are enabled 7.667
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:41.405
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 1:57.673
And I enable persistence 26.572
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.138
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.555
And persistence is enabled 7.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.577
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 7.713
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.232
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.964
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.918
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.236
When I enable persistence 13.384
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.495
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 7.642
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.189
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.483
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.178
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.084
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.963
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 8.011
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.702
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I log in to a new session 9.248
And all notifications have disappeared 6.860
# 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" 0.218
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.288
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.196
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.096
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.099
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 8.026
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.531
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.285
When I try to enable persistence 1.364
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.040
When I log in to a new session 8.490
And all notifications have disappeared 8.181
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.284
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000