Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_web-release-7.12 3 02 Sep 2026, 18:16

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 24:52.093 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.532
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.021
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.227
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.844
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.241
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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31.190
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 10.079
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.243
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.349
And persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.508
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 14.505
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.426
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.638
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.412
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.086
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.218
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
32.161
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.195
And the system is very low on memory 5.210
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.254
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.866
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.195
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.436
And I free up some memory 0.631
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.330
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.465
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 9.374
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.350
And all tps features are active 8.369
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.939
When I disable the first tps feature 3.209
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.363
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.465
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.928
Then all tps features but the first one are active 11.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.018
Tags: @product
13.769
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 8.386
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I disable the first tps feature 2.549
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.470
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.213
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 enabled and logged in 8.571
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I disable the first tps feature 2.523
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.907
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.585
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 8.223
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 13.222
And I take note of which tps features are available 9.604
When I write some files expected to persist 1.199
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.346
# 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" 11.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.276
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 8.005
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 8.746
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 5.518
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.024
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 12.221
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.372
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.077
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.064
Tags: @product
41.647
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 8.381
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.261
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.050
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 8.815
When I enable persistence 22.550
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.693
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.182
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.433
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.346
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.470
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.728
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
When I cold reboot the computer 5.916
And the computer reboots Tails 34.552
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.224
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.234
Given I enable persistence 14.112
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.091
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.319
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.959
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.026
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2:10.846
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 8.536
# 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 29.839
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.373
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.497
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.014
Tags: @product
42.123
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 9.158
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.437
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.295
And all notifications have disappeared 8.927
When I delete the persistent partition 2.821
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.676
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 9.250
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.408
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.708
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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1:3.587
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 8.905
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.152
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.404
And all notifications have disappeared 8.981
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.297
And all tps features are enabled 9.811
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:53.887
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 2:3.973
And I enable persistence 31.315
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.696
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.725
And persistence is enabled 9.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.306
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 7.585
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.056
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.422
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 9.191
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.043
When I enable persistence 13.970
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
31.136
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 8.452
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.820
When I try to enable persistence 1.339
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.724
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.326
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.218
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.195
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.799
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.251
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 9.389
And all notifications have disappeared 8.378
# 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" 0.139
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.088
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.291
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.331
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.509
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 8.866
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.177
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.314
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.009
When I log in to a new session 9.373
And all notifications have disappeared 8.388
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.284
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000