Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6071 15 Jan 2026, 20:09

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 20:8.785 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.225
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 1:15.801
And I update APT using apt 5.820
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.267
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.089
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 8.579
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.651
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.396
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 8.403
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.415
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.559
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.433
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.393
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.828
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
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27.752
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.621
And the system is very low on memory 2.971
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.189
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.665
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 2.375
And I free up some memory 0.933
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.831
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.884
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 8.166
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.325
And all tps features are active 1.305
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.828
When I disable the first tps feature 2.501
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.028
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.561
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.112
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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12.872
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 7.602
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I disable the first tps feature 2.501
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.414
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.720
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 7.197
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.465
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.877
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.575
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 7.273
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 39.252
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.163
When I write some files expected to persist 1.168
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.257
# 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" 11.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:38.919
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 7.283
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.104
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.363
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.455
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.090
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.316
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.052
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
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36.775
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 8.469
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.136
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.048
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:41.799
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 8.514
When I enable persistence 12.615
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.502
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.651
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.395
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.267
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.476
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.178
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
When I cold reboot the computer 7.576
And the computer reboots Tails 35.474
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.313
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
Given I enable persistence 6.810
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.217
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.203
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
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2:7.434
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 7.526
# 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 28.204
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.901
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.750
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
35.686
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 7.602
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.957
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.126
And all notifications have disappeared 7.870
When I delete the persistent partition 2.650
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.322
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 7.487
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.183
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.375
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
39.136
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 7.614
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.531
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.762
And all notifications have disappeared 7.678
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.285
And all tps features are enabled 0.945
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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59.338
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 30.435
And I enable persistence 17.843
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.989
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.539
And persistence is enabled 1.531
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.295
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 7.163
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.637
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.690
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 7.848
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.502
When I enable persistence 6.616
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.228
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 7.389
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.922
When I try to enable persistence 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.971
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.343
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.145
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.995
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 7.587
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.563
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.570
And all notifications have disappeared 9.911
# 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" 0.165
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.481
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.203
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.245
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.644
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 7.607
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.352
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.294
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.721
When I log in to a new session 10.284
And all notifications have disappeared 8.120
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.334
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 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000