Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_disclose-security-issues-post-release 3 29 May 2026, 19:00

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 19:54.896 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.337
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.930
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.342
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.393
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.265
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.353
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.277
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.385
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.280
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.146
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.373
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.696
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.182
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
28.227
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.389
And the system is very low on memory 3.888
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.190
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.406
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.135
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.345
And I free up some memory 0.921
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.896
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.963
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.121
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And all tps features are active 1.180
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.810
When I disable the first tps feature 2.501
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.124
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.817
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.059
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
13.267
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.999
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 2.474
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.025
When I enable the first tps feature 2.430
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.043
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
12.761
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.233
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.509
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.865
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
39.821
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.203
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.095
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.173
When I write some files expected to persist 1.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.226
# 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" 11.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:39.914
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.321
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.199
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.265
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.813
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.496
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.455
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.094
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.056
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40.122
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.344
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.115
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.815
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:39.851
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.291
When I enable persistence 13.059
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.523
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.400
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.343
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" 4.486
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.850
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 4.752
And the computer reboots Tails 35.971
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.268
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.183
Given I enable persistence 6.936
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.274
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.900
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
2:7.717
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.084
# 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 25.382
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.313
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.659
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
36.814
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.891
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.505
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.561
And all notifications have disappeared 7.652
When I delete the persistent partition 2.758
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:19.260
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.579
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.296
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.087
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.018
Tags: @product
39.776
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.254
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.251
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.130
And all notifications have disappeared 7.616
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.266
And all tps features are enabled 0.967
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.202
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 29.040
And I enable persistence 19.420
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.730
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.535
And persistence is enabled 1.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.487
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.143
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.770
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.617
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.789
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.264
When I enable persistence 6.683
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.085
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.474
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.523
When I try to enable persistence 1.333
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.098
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.305
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.179
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.899
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.176
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.722
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 10.412
And all notifications have disappeared 9.495
# 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" 0.204
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.351
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.158
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.247
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.095
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.566
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.512
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.337
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.342
When I log in to a new session 9.970
And all notifications have disappeared 8.191
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.298
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000