Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6037 05 Jan 2026, 18:13

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 22:15.450 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:5.522
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:51.431
And I update APT using apt 6.728
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.313
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.933
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 9.393
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.794
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
And persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.442
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.216
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.335
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.325
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.541
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.572
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.991
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.237
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
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32.428
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.967
And the system is very low on memory 3.514
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.451
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.783
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.114
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.370
And I free up some memory 1.269
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.439
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.021
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 8.747
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.393
And all tps features are active 1.652
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.361
When I disable the first tps feature 3.197
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.328
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.441
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.740
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
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13.980
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.872
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.114
When I disable the first tps feature 3.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.513
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.973
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 7.781
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 3.040
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.973
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.094
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 7.875
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.556
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.204
When I write some files expected to persist 1.406
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.906
# 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" 13.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:47.844
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.629
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.080
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.571
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.059
And I capture all network traffic 0.021
And the network is plugged 0.100
And Tor is ready 12.636
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.393
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.100
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40.635
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.830
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.090
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.438
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.560
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 10.144
When I enable persistence 15.271
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.704
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.861
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.211
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
When I cold reboot the computer 9.258
And the computer reboots Tails 39.162
Given I enable persistence 7.769
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.368
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.409
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
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2:22.404
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.457
# 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 29.689
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.815
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.440
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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39.711
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 8.382
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.308
Then persistence is disabled 0.129
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.197
And all notifications have disappeared 8.608
When I delete the persistent partition 2.727
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.102
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 8.078
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.745
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.900
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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45.507
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 8.812
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 2.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.479
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.004
And all notifications have disappeared 8.572
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.345
And all tps features are enabled 1.612
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.681
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
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 33.741
And I enable persistence 23.286
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.151
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.627
And persistence is enabled 1.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.752
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.021
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.890
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.943
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.971
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.757
When I enable persistence 8.358
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.839
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 8.218
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.708
When I try to enable persistence 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.990
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.143
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.149
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.253
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.684
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.590
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I log in to a new session 11.084
And all notifications have disappeared 9.866
# 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" 0.240
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.611
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.219
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.458
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.816
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 7.915
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.287
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.370
When I try to enable persistence 1.316
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.271
When I log in to a new session 10.945
And all notifications have disappeared 8.894
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.880
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000