Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6373 13 May 2026, 11:22

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 20:6.666 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.580
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.634
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.758
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.306
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.785
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.597
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.342
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
And persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.387
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.228
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.342
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.698
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.364
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.334
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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27.553
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.125
And the system is very low on memory 3.453
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.174
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.626
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.179
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.417
And I free up some memory 0.854
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.679
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:29.116
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.356
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.295
And all tps features are active 1.151
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.956
When I disable the first tps feature 2.670
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.012
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.540
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.927
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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12.644
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.269
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.076
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.473
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.655
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.169
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.473
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.847
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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38.712
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 6.956
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 9.617
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.204
When I write some files expected to persist 1.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.165
# 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" 11.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:39.215
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.243
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 9.983
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.287
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.612
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.392
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.367
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.051
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39.860
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.408
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 13.379
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:45.300
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.582
When I enable persistence 12.442
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.823
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.202
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.393
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.246
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.514
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.605
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.132
When I cold reboot the computer 10.135
And the computer reboots Tails 36.004
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.281
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.168
Given I enable persistence 6.888
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.095
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.237
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.356
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.018
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2:6.783
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.356
# 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 26.476
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.434
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.933
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.051
Tags: @product
37.576
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.966
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.323
Then persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.283
And all notifications have disappeared 7.865
When I delete the persistent partition 2.687
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:15.723
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.686
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.849
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.904
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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41.348
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.858
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.849
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.238
And all notifications have disappeared 7.799
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.254
And all tps features are enabled 1.062
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:0.167
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 29.601
And I enable persistence 18.673
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.616
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.574
And persistence is enabled 1.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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34.595
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 19.317
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.730
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.060
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.248
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.142
When I enable persistence 6.843
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.338
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.707
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.525
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.135
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.399
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.146
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.366
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.521
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.186
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.020
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.565
And all notifications have disappeared 8.447
# 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" 0.136
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.097
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.181
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.201
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.893
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.537
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.726
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.321
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.766
When I log in to a new session 10.623
And all notifications have disappeared 7.670
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.310
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000