Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6073 16 Jan 2026, 11:22

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 20:39.011 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.382
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 1:20.274
And I update APT using apt 6.015
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.309
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.019
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 8.578
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.916
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.272
And persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:37.269
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 9.108
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.361
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.370
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.493
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.395
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.209
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.165
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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30.328
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 logged in 8.168
And the system is very low on memory 3.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.215
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.481
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.147
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.402
And I free up some memory 0.768
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.605
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.130
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 8.098
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And all tps features are active 1.567
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.318
When I disable the first tps feature 2.516
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.212
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.133
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.628
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.017
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 7.771
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I disable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.421
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.219
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 7.624
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.561
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.867
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.233
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 7.210
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 10.372
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.254
When I write some files expected to persist 1.307
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.460
# 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" 12.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.920
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 7.331
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.978
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.215
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.510
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.046
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.257
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.369
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.087
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39.344
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 8.433
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.806
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.259
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:48.677
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 8.667
When I enable persistence 13.152
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.700
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.662
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.354
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.328
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.616
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.093
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
When I cold reboot the computer 10.615
And the computer reboots Tails 36.600
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.362
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.254
Given I enable persistence 7.021
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.236
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.605
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:13.631
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 8.689
# 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 29.557
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.821
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.677
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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37.653
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 8.259
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.866
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.158
And all notifications have disappeared 8.208
When I delete the persistent partition 2.655
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:23.362
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.720
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.527
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.782
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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41.829
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.275
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.133
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.461
And all notifications have disappeared 7.917
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.264
And all tps features are enabled 1.189
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.177
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 31.830
And I enable persistence 19.666
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.412
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.578
And persistence is enabled 1.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.275
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 7.330
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.403
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.798
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 8.200
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.063
When I enable persistence 6.603
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.550
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 8.249
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.118
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.593
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.714
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.195
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.655
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 8.254
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.884
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.445
And all notifications have disappeared 8.901
# 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" 0.303
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.118
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.231
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.271
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.532
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 7.811
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.190
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.469
When I log in to a new session 10.880
And all notifications have disappeared 8.464
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.241
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000