Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21811-firmware-sof-2026.09.1-1 3 07 Oct 2026, 13:51

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 23:48.344 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:0.713
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 1:18.397
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.000
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.537
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.437
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 8.731
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.603
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.217
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.834
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 8.485
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.336
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.719
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.555
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.349
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.223
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.954
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 8.138
And the system is very low on memory 4.184
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.196
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.460
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.108
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.396
And I free up some memory 0.560
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.855
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.491
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 8.132
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
And all tps features are active 8.142
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.568
When I disable the first tps feature 2.445
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.192
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.398
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.883
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.061
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13.274
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 8.021
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.508
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.027
When I enable the first tps feature 2.405
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.046
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.335
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 7.836
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.497
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.837
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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44.881
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 7.532
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 13.140
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.534
When I write some files expected to persist 0.922
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.249
# 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" 11.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.563
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 7.751
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 10.264
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.310
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.276
And I capture all network traffic 0.016
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.233
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.343
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.041
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39.202
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 8.522
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.070
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.594
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.644
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 8.696
When I enable persistence 22.423
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.373
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.079
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.381
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.477
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.336
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 5.933
And the computer reboots Tails 33.364
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.222
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.192
Given I enable persistence 13.688
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.060
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.202
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.670
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:22.934
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 21.556
# 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 31.611
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.232
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.159
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
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38.712
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 7.818
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.877
Then persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.585
And all notifications have disappeared 8.468
When I delete the persistent partition 2.640
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.791
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 8.013
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.478
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.021
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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57.503
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 8.103
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.525
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.261
And all notifications have disappeared 8.697
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.391
And all tps features are enabled 8.569
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:40.037
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 1:56.651
And I enable persistence 27.156
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.180
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.586
And persistence is enabled 8.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.921
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
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 7.579
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.871
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.760
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" 9.646
When I enable persistence 14.060
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.033
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.022
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 8.015
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.582
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.101
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.266
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.134
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.895
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 7.840
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.213
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 7.757
And all notifications have disappeared 7.855
# 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" 0.184
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.097
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.241
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.200
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.427
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 20.826
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.831
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.356
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.423
When I log in to a new session 8.002
And all notifications have disappeared 6.686
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.148
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000