Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6050 10 Jan 2026, 11:39

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 20:38.405 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.228
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.414
And I update APT using apt 5.521
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.240
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.281
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 9.055
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.650
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.423
And persistence is disabled 0.137
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.361
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.946
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.446
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.944
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.487
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.246
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.923
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.214
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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29.823
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 7.567
And the system is very low on memory 4.109
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.240
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.836
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.583
And I free up some memory 0.902
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.405
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:30.786
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 8.792
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.333
And all tps features are active 1.167
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.919
When I disable the first tps feature 2.489
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.940
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.780
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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13.242
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.593
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.142
When I disable the first tps feature 2.666
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.142
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 7.501
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.512
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.928
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.516
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 7.540
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 11.194
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.288
When I write some files expected to persist 1.476
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.796
# 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" 12.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:43.087
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 7.536
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 8.823
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.509
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.205
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 12.276
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.364
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.105
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
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39.288
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.682
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.091
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.942
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.985
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 8.813
When I enable persistence 15.235
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.362
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.631
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.914
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.236
When I cold reboot the computer 10.248
And the computer reboots Tails 37.192
Given I enable persistence 7.658
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.439
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.094
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:10.973
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.170
# 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 29.522
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.787
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.312
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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38.590
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.127
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.516
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.330
And all notifications have disappeared 8.290
When I delete the persistent partition 2.774
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:23.071
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 7.804
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.636
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.307
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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42.969
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 8.095
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.756
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.353
And all notifications have disappeared 8.703
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.297
And all tps features are enabled 1.321
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.039
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 31.289
And I enable persistence 21.397
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.107
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.596
And persistence is enabled 1.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.984
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
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 7.378
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.986
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.906
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 8.660
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.584
When I enable persistence 6.737
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.091
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.803
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 8.095
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.035
When I try to enable persistence 2.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.827
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.201
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.191
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.456
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 7.682
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 2.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.729
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 11.372
And all notifications have disappeared 9.299
# 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" 0.141
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.103
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.165
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.307
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.865
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 7.801
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.732
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.340
When I try to enable persistence 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.409
When I log in to a new session 9.890
And all notifications have disappeared 9.830
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.803
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000