Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6354 05 May 2026, 16:10

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 21:6.014 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.084
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.184
And I update APT using apt 6.659
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.273
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.757
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.037
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.586
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.297
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.229
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.441
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.333
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.149
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.455
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.545
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.858
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.245
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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28.550
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.545
And the system is very low on memory 3.340
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.238
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.046
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.167
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.490
And I free up some memory 0.884
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.769
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.321
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.507
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
And all tps features are active 1.301
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.123
When I disable the first tps feature 2.571
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.901
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.258
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.118
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.587
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.609
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.096
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.097
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.375
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I disable the first tps feature 2.566
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.933
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.249
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.430
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 17.737
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.432
When I write some files expected to persist 1.283
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.154
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:21.531
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.656
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.283
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 19.083
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.128
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 22.674
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.386
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.052
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
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38.018
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.602
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.102
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.851
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:46.160
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.514
When I enable persistence 13.251
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.544
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.314
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.377
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.241
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.503
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.068
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
When I cold reboot the computer 10.141
And the computer reboots Tails 35.847
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.313
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.182
Given I enable persistence 6.862
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.238
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.349
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:5.386
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.396
# 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 25.290
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.584
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.668
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
36.436
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.420
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.131
Then persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.802
And all notifications have disappeared 8.011
When I delete the persistent partition 2.655
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.666
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.292
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.463
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.639
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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39.515
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.148
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.825
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.796
And all notifications have disappeared 7.986
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.323
And all tps features are enabled 1.036
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.517
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 28.978
And I enable persistence 18.004
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.497
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.531
And persistence is enabled 1.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.949
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 6.796
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.659
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.755
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.856
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.528
When I enable persistence 6.570
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.290
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.692
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.258
When I try to enable persistence 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.274
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.407
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.190
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.280
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.310
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.040
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I log in to a new session 10.649
And all notifications have disappeared 8.306
# 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" 0.190
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.082
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.201
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.249
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.092
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.271
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.458
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.312
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.727
When I log in to a new session 9.936
And all notifications have disappeared 9.137
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.381
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000