Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6065 14 Jan 2026, 16:05

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 20:3.662 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.809
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 1:16.487
And I update APT using apt 5.140
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.247
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.806
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 8.668
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.921
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.140
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 8.437
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.127
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.587
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.475
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.661
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.270
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.191
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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27.772
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 logged in 7.623
And the system is very low on memory 2.806
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.355
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.838
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.334
And I free up some memory 0.777
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.857
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.511
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 8.253
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.471
And all tps features are active 1.180
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.963
When I disable the first tps feature 2.512
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.815
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.183
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.980
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 enabled and logged in 7.459
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.607
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.036
When I enable the first tps feature 2.565
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.032
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 7.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.138
And I disable the first tps feature 2.529
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.816
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.417
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 7.313
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 8.533
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.205
When I write some files expected to persist 1.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.449
# 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" 11.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:44.340
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 7.417
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 10.219
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.133
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.292
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.041
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 16.759
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.283
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.061
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38.596
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.038
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.709
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.073
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.137
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:48.355
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 8.796
When I enable persistence 13.363
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.493
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.828
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.370
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.524
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.139
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
When I cold reboot the computer 10.056
And the computer reboots Tails 35.563
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.276
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.213
Given I enable persistence 7.415
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.212
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.453
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:6.063
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 enabled and logged in 7.478
# 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 26.732
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.050
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.152
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
37.023
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 7.773
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.462
Then persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.151
And all notifications have disappeared 8.442
When I delete the persistent partition 2.705
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.415
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 7.594
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.310
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.256
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
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39.404
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 7.665
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.604
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.658
And all notifications have disappeared 8.009
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.233
And all tps features are enabled 1.009
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.989
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.283
And I enable persistence 18.314
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.386
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.528
And persistence is enabled 1.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.603
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.100
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.923
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.312
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 8.443
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.797
When I enable persistence 6.430
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.281
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 7.725
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.120
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.371
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.376
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.173
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.225
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 7.395
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.241
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.414
And all notifications have disappeared 9.891
# 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" 0.146
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.512
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.156
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.228
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.579
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 7.489
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.576
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.337
When I try to enable persistence 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.753
When I log in to a new session 9.962
And all notifications have disappeared 8.299
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.249
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000