Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6612 28 Aug 2026, 07:22

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 22:57.943 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.406
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.721
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.703
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.300
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.242
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 8.047
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.460
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.194
And persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.842
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 8.625
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.327
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.924
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.210
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.439
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.142
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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28.006
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.786
And the system is very low on memory 4.414
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.234
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.484
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.306
And I free up some memory 0.475
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.129
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.932
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 8.134
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
And all tps features are active 7.515
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.543
When I disable the first tps feature 2.467
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.343
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.342
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.037
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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26.181
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 20.751
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.543
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.520
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.169
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 7.576
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.462
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.935
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.932
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 7.669
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 10.323
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.332
When I write some files expected to persist 1.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.236
# 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" 11.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.827
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 7.566
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 8.361
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.169
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 1:3.301
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 12.461
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.108
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.075
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39.032
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 8.663
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.115
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.090
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.423
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 8.259
When I enable persistence 23.681
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.428
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.377
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.219
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.145
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.425
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.034
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
When I cold reboot the computer 6.125
And the computer reboots Tails 34.185
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.282
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.227
Given I enable persistence 12.919
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.315
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.469
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:6.170
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 8.361
# 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 30.017
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.276
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.916
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
37.886
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 8.286
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.673
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.118
And all notifications have disappeared 7.834
When I delete the persistent partition 2.642
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.142
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 7.894
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.246
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.775
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
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1:1.956
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.122
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.032
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.454
And all notifications have disappeared 8.695
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.287
And all tps features are enabled 10.155
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.114
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 2:3.300
And I enable persistence 26.188
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.328
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.494
And persistence is enabled 8.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.744
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 7.349
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.936
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.285
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.628
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.673
When I enable persistence 13.882
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.898
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 8.023
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.869
When I try to enable persistence 1.357
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.320
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.127
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.163
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.231
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.199
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 7.797
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.533
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.088
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 8.705
And all notifications have disappeared 7.574
# 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" 0.118
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.069
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.158
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.032
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.549
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 8.263
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.677
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.202
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.095
When I log in to a new session 7.765
And all notifications have disappeared 7.681
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.084
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000