Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6485 01 Jul 2026, 11:38

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 22:12.387 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.839
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 1:17.484
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.228
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.270
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.802
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 8.511
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.437
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
And persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.220
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.004
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.684
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.373
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.389
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.204
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.488
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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28.604
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 7.696
And the system is very low on memory 3.511
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.274
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" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.398
And I free up some memory 0.859
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.014
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:3.814
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 21.001
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.289
And all tps features are active 5.028
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.191
When I disable the first tps feature 2.535
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.557
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.928
Then all tps features but the first one are active 5.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
13.972
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 enabled and logged in 7.957
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I disable the first tps feature 3.068
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.061
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.001
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 7.598
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.125
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.170
And I disable the first tps feature 3.075
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.926
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.773
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 7.484
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 9.942
And I take note of which tps features are available 4.390
When I write some files expected to persist 1.324
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.648
# 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" 12.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.015
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 enabled and logged in 7.297
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 9.951
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.129
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.241
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.166
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.535
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.407
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.061
Tags: @product
38.209
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 9.007
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.099
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.259
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:54.213
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 8.508
When I enable persistence 16.425
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.719
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.767
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.329
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.297
# 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 24.727
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.153
When I cold reboot the computer 10.120
And the computer reboots Tails 36.924
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.239
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.195
Given I enable persistence 10.847
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.204
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.002
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:11.295
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 8.198
# 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 27.893
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.308
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.849
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
36.809
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 8.432
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.755
Then persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.982
And all notifications have disappeared 7.454
When I delete the persistent partition 2.743
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.544
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 21.018
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.293
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.800
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
50.596
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 8.435
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.732
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.068
And all notifications have disappeared 7.483
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.301
And all tps features are enabled 5.242
And all tps features but the first one are active 5.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:12.533
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 30.823
And I enable persistence 24.675
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.344
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.570
And persistence is enabled 6.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.485
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.015
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.964
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.350
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 8.192
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.056
When I enable persistence 10.656
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 5.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.216
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 7.911
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.132
When I try to enable persistence 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.206
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.348
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.141
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.392
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 7.804
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.847
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I log in to a new session 11.226
And all notifications have disappeared 9.757
# 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" 0.184
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.530
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.201
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.429
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.698
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 8.078
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.731
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.323
When I try to enable persistence 1.311
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.185
When I log in to a new session 10.650
And all notifications have disappeared 9.226
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.466
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000