Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6068 15 Jan 2026, 12:25

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 32:37.714 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:24.933
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 2:5.182
And I update APT using apt 9.365
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.369
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.009
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 13.770
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.041
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.346
And persistence is disabled 0.136
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.182
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 14.349
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.410
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.151
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.733
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.846
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.123
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.231
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.261
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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39.606
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 11.280
And the system is very low on memory 4.204
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.409
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.386
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.126
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.548
And I free up some memory 1.068
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:2.498
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 13.300
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.378
And all tps features are active 2.861
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.464
When I disable the first tps feature 2.981
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.202
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.087
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.990
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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17.915
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 10.783
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 3.503
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 3.119
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.664
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 10.594
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I disable the first tps feature 3.043
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.785
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.081
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 11.272
And the network is plugged 0.101
And Tor is ready 13.809
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.587
When I write some files expected to persist 1.315
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.212
# 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" 18.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.669
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 10.702
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 11.670
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.170
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.402
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 12.808
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.082
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.080
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55.646
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.925
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.144
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.602
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:32.299
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 13.362
When I enable persistence 25.635
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.966
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.743
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.549
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.499
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.806
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.066
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.228
When I cold reboot the computer 11.092
And the computer reboots Tails 44.156
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.516
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.401
Given I enable persistence 14.790
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.112
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.528
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.634
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:36.978
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 13.018
# 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 30.325
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.946
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:19.008
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
Tags: @product
53.261
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.131
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.036
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.680
And all notifications have disappeared 10.981
When I delete the persistent partition 2.887
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.102
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 12.463
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.598
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.272
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.693
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:3.315
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 12.056
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.314
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.278
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.257
And all notifications have disappeared 10.090
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.429
And all tps features are enabled 2.651
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:23.638
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:31.060
And I enable persistence 35.440
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.108
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.681
And persistence is enabled 2.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.458
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 9.468
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.332
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.582
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 12.176
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.781
When I enable persistence 13.064
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.631
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 11.382
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.557
When I try to enable persistence 1.361
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.654
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.845
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.324
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.483
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 10.233
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 1.334
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.692
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 14.423
And all notifications have disappeared 11.018
# 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" 0.293
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.740
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.413
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.580
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.755
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 10.933
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.488
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.424
When I try to enable persistence 1.337
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.187
When I log in to a new session 14.195
And all notifications have disappeared 10.026
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.893
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000