Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6072 16 Jan 2026, 08:15

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 21:26.901 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.014
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 1:21.190
And I update APT using apt 6.763
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.259
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.283
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 9.002
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.920
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
And persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.580
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 9.342
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.437
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.184
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.550
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.531
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.735
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.559
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
30.419
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 8.167
And the system is very low on memory 3.218
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.271
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.966
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.379
And I free up some memory 0.814
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.978
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.395
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 8.703
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And all tps features are active 1.247
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.138
When I disable the first tps feature 2.728
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.702
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.887
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.539
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.075
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13.783
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 8.263
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 2.663
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.710
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 7.327
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
And I disable the first tps feature 3.081
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.979
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.553
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 7.626
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.567
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.222
When I write some files expected to persist 1.401
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.867
# 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" 12.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.577
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 7.434
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.682
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.252
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.030
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.487
And I capture all network traffic 0.032
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 41.675
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.458
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.113
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
Tags: @product
40.407
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.038
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.112
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.289
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.820
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 9.159
When I enable persistence 15.399
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.539
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.501
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.563
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.374
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.596
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.770
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
When I cold reboot the computer 6.335
And the computer reboots Tails 39.344
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.329
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.274
Given I enable persistence 8.437
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.121
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.345
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.396
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:2.226
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 8.725
# 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 23.868
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.439
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.360
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
39.714
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 8.574
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.643
Then persistence is disabled 0.135
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.854
And all notifications have disappeared 8.341
When I delete the persistent partition 2.679
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:25.281
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 7.991
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.544
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.475
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
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42.605
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 8.274
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.149
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.041
And all notifications have disappeared 8.121
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.278
And all tps features are enabled 1.376
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.254
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 31.546
And I enable persistence 20.747
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.795
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.564
And persistence is enabled 1.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.146
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 7.205
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.204
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.796
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.848
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.935
When I enable persistence 7.996
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.337
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 7.539
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.808
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.301
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.177
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.186
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 7.782
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.107
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.691
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 12.053
And all notifications have disappeared 9.225
# 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" 0.292
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.120
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.164
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.543
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.804
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 7.964
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.704
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.376
When I try to enable persistence 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.501
When I log in to a new session 9.724
And all notifications have disappeared 9.051
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.381
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000