Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6053 12 Jan 2026, 16:40

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 21:16.348 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.447
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.918
And I update APT using apt 6.276
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.317
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.562
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.305
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.439
And persistence is disabled 0.144
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.628
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 8.666
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.373
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.465
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.005
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.389
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.245
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
Tags: @product
31.626
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 8.184
And the system is very low on memory 3.840
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.311
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.789
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.101
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.435
And I free up some memory 0.966
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.448
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.463
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 8.576
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.345
And all tps features are active 1.439
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.031
When I disable the first tps feature 2.562
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.269
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.811
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.039
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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13.651
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 8.133
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.603
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.476
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.593
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 7.319
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 3.089
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.977
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.058
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 7.820
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.997
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.225
When I write some files expected to persist 1.343
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.741
# 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" 12.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:46.311
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 7.799
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 10.610
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.489
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.797
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 11.793
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
41.373
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 8.856
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.126
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.783
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:53.470
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 9.693
When I enable persistence 15.386
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.833
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.956
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.893
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 9.192
And the computer reboots Tails 38.951
Given I enable persistence 8.294
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.456
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.493
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
2:7.349
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 8.659
# 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 30.462
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.498
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.167
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
40.390
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 8.944
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.238
Then persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.328
And all notifications have disappeared 8.494
When I delete the persistent partition 2.923
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.239
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 8.718
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.950
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.182
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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45.049
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.734
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.674
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.801
And all notifications have disappeared 8.586
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.368
And all tps features are enabled 1.379
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.102
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 33.343
And I enable persistence 22.311
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.479
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.622
And persistence is enabled 2.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.227
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
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 8.055
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.358
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.921
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 8.664
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.464
When I enable persistence 7.006
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.225
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 8.206
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.881
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.629
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.198
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.208
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.017
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 8.473
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.540
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 12.657
And all notifications have disappeared 10.329
# 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" 0.175
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.596
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.218
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.652
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.881
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 7.592
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.671
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.540
When I try to enable persistence 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.759
When I log in to a new session 12.161
And all notifications have disappeared 8.203
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.723
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000