Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6589 18 Aug 2026, 18:06

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 24:34.578 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.826
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 1:20.355
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.481
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.233
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.359
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 9.109
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.624
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.252
And persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.446
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 10.023
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.671
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.092
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.315
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.675
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.216
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product
30.742
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 8.445
And the system is very low on memory 4.575
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.196
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.641
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.288
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.511
And I free up some memory 0.573
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.463
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.155
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 9.279
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.435
And all tps features are active 9.748
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.833
When I disable the first tps feature 2.618
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.699
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.889
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.847
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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14.577
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 9.146
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.528
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.558
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 8.138
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I disable the first tps feature 3.092
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.121
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
48.825
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 enabled and logged in 8.204
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 14.013
And I take note of which tps features are available 8.064
When I write some files expected to persist 1.224
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.589
# 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" 11.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.609
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 8.056
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 10.813
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.120
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.389
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.369
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 11.212
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.379
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.092
Tags: @product
42.421
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 9.044
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.182
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.960
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:9.832
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 9.719
When I enable persistence 24.995
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.408
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.002
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.440
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.376
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.583
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.941
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
When I cold reboot the computer 7.329
And the computer reboots Tails 36.325
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.261
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.305
Given I enable persistence 19.686
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.118
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.338
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.692
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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2:13.903
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 8.585
# 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 27.627
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.451
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.764
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
41.788
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 9.118
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.533
Then persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.159
And all notifications have disappeared 8.902
When I delete the persistent partition 2.638
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.248
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.036
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.336
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.617
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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1:1.354
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 8.262
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.831
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.997
And all notifications have disappeared 8.603
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.273
And all tps features are enabled 8.806
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.443
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 2:2.123
And I enable persistence 29.649
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.018
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.501
And persistence is enabled 10.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.071
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.992
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.579
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.382
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 9.268
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.477
When I enable persistence 15.268
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.878
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.945
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.792
When I try to enable persistence 1.467
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.469
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.098
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.230
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.213
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.994
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 8.406
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.489
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.036
When I log in to a new session 9.851
And all notifications have disappeared 8.989
# 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" 0.149
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.096
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.260
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.330
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.157
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 9.018
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.059
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.304
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.974
When I log in to a new session 9.324
And all notifications have disappeared 7.158
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.222
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000