Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6031 02 Jan 2026, 09:37

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 41:58.399 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:15.521
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:59.656
And I update APT using apt 8.396
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.378
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.663
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 13.438
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.211
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.407
And persistence is disabled 0.163
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:17.335
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 15.246
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.467
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.147
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.894
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.683
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.030
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.128
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.674
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
Tags: @product
41.825
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.104
And the system is very low on memory 5.129
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.249
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.797
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.806
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.610
And I free up some memory 1.307
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.154
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:16.305
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 14.869
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.478
And all tps features are active 2.425
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.723
When I disable the first tps feature 3.694
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.285
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.538
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:28.663
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
19.130
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 12.869
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.103
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.088
When I disable the first tps feature 3.200
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.528
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.744
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.089
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.130
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I disable the first tps feature 3.237
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.144
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.975
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 10.378
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 15.489
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.610
When I write some files expected to persist 1.597
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.180
# 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" 18.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:14.990
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 enabled and logged in 10.728
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 11.828
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.169
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.720
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:26.607
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 14.024
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.430
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
Tags: @product
52.312
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 12.593
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.127
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.662
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:28.899
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 13.342
When I enable persistence 22.347
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.771
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.450
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.842
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 10.713
And the computer reboots Tails 47.694
Given I enable persistence 12.947
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.932
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.539
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
3:13.085
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 enabled and logged in 14.426
# 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 37.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.615
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:43.185
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
52.322
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 11.479
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.518
Then persistence is disabled 0.139
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.353
And all notifications have disappeared 11.169
When I delete the persistent partition 3.169
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.478
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 11.389
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.519
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.234
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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59.309
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 10.724
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.419
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.110
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.434
And all notifications have disappeared 10.322
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.486
And all tps features are enabled 3.682
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15:4.085
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 14:20.356
And I enable persistence 27.242
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.623
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.691
And persistence is enabled 2.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.781
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.151
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.848
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.209
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 11.209
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.891
When I enable persistence 11.220
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.010
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.553
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.368
When I try to enable persistence 2.370
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.819
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.822
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.320
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.769
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.454
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 1.355
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.412
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I log in to a new session 13.232
And all notifications have disappeared 10.684
# 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" 0.267
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.930
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.345
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.981
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.642
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 10.293
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.898
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.369
When I try to enable persistence 2.367
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.138
When I log in to a new session 12.114
And all notifications have disappeared 10.609
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.671
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000