Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6030 01 Jan 2026, 11:54

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 157 0 0 0 0 157 21 0 21 32:12.439 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:40.752
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:25.063
And I update APT using apt 8.085
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.452
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.719
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 13.248
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.417
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
And persistence is disabled 0.141
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:1.102
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 13.686
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.396
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.734
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.566
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.162
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.160
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.221
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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37.264
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 11.213
And the system is very low on memory 4.666
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.222
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.234
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.182
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.598
And I free up some memory 1.053
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.532
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.362
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 14.158
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.443
And all tps features are active 2.280
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.397
When I disable the first tps feature 3.145
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.559
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.474
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.760
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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18.778
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.738
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 2.933
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.076
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.610
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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16.901
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.377
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I disable the first tps feature 3.113
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.175
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.028
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.364
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 43.097
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.631
When I write some files expected to persist 1.391
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.966
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 18.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:5.525
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.562
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 11.155
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.335
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.769
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 12.662
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.413
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.109
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.063
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53.285
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.560
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.116
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.770
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:20.488
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.447
When I enable persistence 25.070
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.372
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.433
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.794
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
When I cold reboot the computer 12.558
And the computer reboots Tails 42.384
Given I enable persistence 10.796
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.699
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.573
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:28.269
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.397
# 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 31.906
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.441
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.736
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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49.179
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 11.739
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.236
Then persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.560
And all notifications have disappeared 10.213
When I delete the persistent partition 2.897
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.273
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.178
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.917
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.772
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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55.835
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 10.369
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.710
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.731
And all notifications have disappeared 9.915
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.316
And all tps features are enabled 2.325
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:28.347
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
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 5:45.516
And I enable persistence 27.424
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.367
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.711
And persistence is enabled 2.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.865
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
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 9.350
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.901
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.893
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 12.846
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.352
When I enable persistence 9.158
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.107
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.668
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 10.166
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.044
When I try to enable persistence 1.521
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.845
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.243
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.288
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.951
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 9.862
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.818
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.307
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I log in to a new session 13.758
And all notifications have disappeared 11.387
# 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" 0.282
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.586
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.367
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.109
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.945
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 10.403
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.103
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.385
When I try to enable persistence 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.677
When I log in to a new session 13.513
And all notifications have disappeared 10.159
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.083
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000