Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_web-release-7.12 5 02 Sep 2026, 20:11

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 24:39.489 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.444
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 1:20.583
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.736
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.296
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.873
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 9.067
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.884
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.272
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.894
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 8.964
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.438
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.120
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 6.074
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.858
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.211
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.032
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32.287
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 8.814
And the system is very low on memory 4.571
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.170
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.257
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 2.343
And I free up some memory 0.544
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.425
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.173
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 8.358
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.563
And all tps features are active 8.494
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.045
When I disable the first tps feature 2.504
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.020
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.134
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.152
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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14.098
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 8.752
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.518
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.424
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.477
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 7.829
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.109
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.560
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.855
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.110
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 7.731
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.188
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.229
When I write some files expected to persist 1.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.808
# 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" 12.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.781
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 8.209
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 10.386
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.110
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.609
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.088
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 11.478
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.361
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.191
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.054
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44.319
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.248
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.112
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.902
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:5.919
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.428
When I enable persistence 26.222
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.973
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.569
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.601
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.176
# 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 24.075
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.240
When I cold reboot the computer 6.186
And the computer reboots Tails 36.247
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.408
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.242
Given I enable persistence 16.208
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.350
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.282
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:16.772
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 9.208
# 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 32.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.328
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:11.067
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
Tags: @product
43.122
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 8.655
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.830
Then persistence is disabled 0.140
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.566
And all notifications have disappeared 9.080
When I delete the persistent partition 2.601
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.584
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 8.470
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.708
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.118
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
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1:1.698
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.746
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.670
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.943
And all notifications have disappeared 8.062
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.798
And all tps features are enabled 8.506
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.023
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 2:5.477
And I enable persistence 27.097
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.795
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.636
And persistence is enabled 9.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.015
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 8.022
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.396
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
55.440
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 22.735
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.454
When I enable persistence 13.230
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.867
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 8.483
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.874
When I try to enable persistence 1.313
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.278
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.110
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.248
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.087
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.040
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 8.368
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
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 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I log in to a new session 9.891
And all notifications have disappeared 6.831
# 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" 0.202
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.094
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.275
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.126
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.540
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 8.590
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.357
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.377
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.185
When I log in to a new session 9.029
And all notifications have disappeared 6.575
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.266
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000