Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6669 15 Sep 2026, 13:51

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 23:58.062 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.355
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 1:23.333
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.919
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.245
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.521
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 8.858
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.752
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.240
And persistence is disabled 0.077
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.584
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 9.353
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.329
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.169
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.166
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
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32.204
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 9.008
And the system is very low on memory 4.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.644
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.176
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.486
And I free up some memory 0.594
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.024
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:1.142
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 8.810
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.523
And all tps features are active 10.512
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.620
When I disable the first tps feature 2.464
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.632
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.324
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.184
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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14.258
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 8.251
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.103
When I disable the first tps feature 3.129
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.430
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.481
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 7.850
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.578
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.860
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.866
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
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 10.162
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.325
When I write some files expected to persist 0.955
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.517
# 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" 11.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.180
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 7.923
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 10.485
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.131
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.332
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.982
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 12.599
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.413
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.135
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.038
Tags: @product
40.838
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 8.808
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.068
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.789
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.527
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 8.916
When I enable persistence 23.159
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.943
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.091
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.500
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.315
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.489
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.004
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
When I cold reboot the computer 5.841
And the computer reboots Tails 34.472
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.374
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.256
Given I enable persistence 14.318
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.115
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.215
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.201
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:12.807
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 8.741
# 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 28.784
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.505
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.722
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.064
Tags: @product
39.574
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 8.443
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.790
Then persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.620
And all notifications have disappeared 8.625
When I delete the persistent partition 2.704
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.469
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 8.160
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.411
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.616
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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59.907
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 8.011
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.751
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.563
And all notifications have disappeared 9.029
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.246
And all tps features are enabled 8.898
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.665
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 1:59.562
And I enable persistence 27.821
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.793
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.586
And persistence is enabled 8.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.106
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 7.691
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.856
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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41.103
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 8.216
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.896
When I enable persistence 13.571
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.796
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 7.803
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.263
When I try to enable persistence 1.247
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.090
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.247
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.177
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.799
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.266
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.236
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 9.092
And all notifications have disappeared 7.822
# 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" 0.128
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.094
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.260
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.347
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.869
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.377
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.080
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.325
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.508
When I log in to a new session 7.734
And all notifications have disappeared 6.968
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.818
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 2.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000