Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_post-rm-7.11 11 23 Aug 2026, 17:56

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 22:13.743 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.850
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 1:18.242
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.722
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.571
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 8.482
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.336
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.184
And persistence is disabled 0.074
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:31.126
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 8.415
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.240
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.497
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When 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 59.272
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.144
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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29.087
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 7.877
And the system is very low on memory 4.806
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.237
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.247
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.292
And I free up some memory 0.446
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.034
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.621
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 7.964
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.260
And all tps features are active 7.657
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.640
When I disable the first tps feature 2.440
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.549
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.471
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.226
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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13.074
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 7.794
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.426
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.495
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.016
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 7.699
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.385
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.774
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.735
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 7.642
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 9.194
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.809
When I write some files expected to persist 0.925
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.137
# 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" 10.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.901
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 7.807
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 9.321
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.254
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.280
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 10.472
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.369
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.045
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38.122
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.181
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.043
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.956
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 8.361
When I enable persistence 23.502
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.633
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.055
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.357
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.273
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.433
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.128
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.123
When I cold reboot the computer 5.857
And the computer reboots Tails 31.996
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.194
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.098
Given I enable persistence 12.142
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.090
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.293
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.310
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:3.360
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 7.959
# 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 29.713
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.201
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.713
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.009
Tags: @product
37.936
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 7.948
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.792
Then persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.968
And all notifications have disappeared 8.323
When I delete the persistent partition 2.591
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.980
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 7.772
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.177
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.773
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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53.673
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.138
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.343
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.383
And all notifications have disappeared 8.352
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.347
And all tps features are enabled 7.026
And all tps features but the first one are active 6.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.869
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 1:58.045
And I enable persistence 25.699
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.165
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.477
And persistence is enabled 7.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.102
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 7.367
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.324
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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36.953
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 8.339
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.471
When I enable persistence 11.471
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.372
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 7.980
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.451
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.073
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.082
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.212
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.338
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 7.805
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.243
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.077
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.270
And all notifications have disappeared 6.540
# 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" 0.102
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.078
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.206
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.976
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.089
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 7.881
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.802
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.280
When I try to enable persistence 1.128
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.425
When I log in to a new session 7.717
And all notifications have disappeared 8.197
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.988
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000