Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_web-release-7.12 1 02 Sep 2026, 18:08

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 24:55.944 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.866
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 1:20.779
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.097
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.251
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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45.398
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 22.471
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.160
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.246
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.612
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 9.157
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.429
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.805
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.358
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.459
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
Tags: @product
31.987
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 logged in 8.681
And the system is very low on memory 4.865
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.462
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.133
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.412
And I free up some memory 0.503
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.741
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.876
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 8.464
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.373
And all tps features are active 9.010
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.758
When I disable the first tps feature 2.540
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.860
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.050
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.343
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.047
Tags: @product
14.119
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 8.211
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.083
When I disable the first tps feature 2.638
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.227
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.159
When I enable the first tps feature 2.520
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.840
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 8.181
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.545
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.935
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.637
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 8.725
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 10.242
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.605
When I write some files expected to persist 1.384
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.610
# 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" 12.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.788
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 enabled and logged in 8.223
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 8.877
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.095
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.883
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.557
And I capture all network traffic 0.012
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 11.539
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.337
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
Tags: @product
40.813
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.434
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.141
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.463
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
3:8.421
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.347
When I enable persistence 24.598
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.906
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.889
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.666
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 1.657
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.799
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.581
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.189
When I cold reboot the computer 6.120
And the computer reboots Tails 35.066
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.220
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.285
Given I enable persistence 19.505
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.197
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.031
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.039
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2:19.979
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 8.989
# 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 30.763
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.581
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:15.557
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.078
Tags: @product
43.441
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 9.319
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.984
Then persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.358
And all notifications have disappeared 9.635
When I delete the persistent partition 2.614
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.840
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 8.224
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.489
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.854
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
1:2.702
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 8.350
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.106
When I try to enable persistence 1.341
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.127
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.554
And all notifications have disappeared 8.968
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.339
And all tps features are enabled 9.344
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:52.117
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:3.536
And I enable persistence 31.139
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.718
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.579
And persistence is enabled 9.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.927
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 7.951
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.488
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.520
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.030
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.907
When I enable persistence 14.498
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.079
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 8.827
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.990
When I try to enable persistence 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.895
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.382
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.085
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.268
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.363
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 8.862
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.644
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I log in to a new session 9.792
And all notifications have disappeared 8.593
# 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" 0.216
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.107
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.283
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.344
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.608
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 8.471
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.231
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.370
When I try to enable persistence 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.513
When I log in to a new session 7.459
And all notifications have disappeared 7.660
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.540
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000