Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6080 20 Jan 2026, 08:20

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 21:3.393 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.130
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 1:17.750
And I update APT using apt 6.121
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.282
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.227
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 8.757
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.105
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.331
And persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.673
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 9.050
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.387
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.464
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 9.404
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.482
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.200
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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30.689
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 8.356
And the system is very low on memory 3.237
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.169
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.889
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.123
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.439
And I free up some memory 0.806
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.125
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:30.581
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 8.027
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
And all tps features are active 1.576
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.463
When I disable the first tps feature 2.557
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.321
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.366
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.500
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
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13.341
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 7.914
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.478
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.483
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.988
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 7.388
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
And I disable the first tps feature 2.568
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.864
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.865
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 7.178
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 39.198
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.198
When I write some files expected to persist 1.173
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.583
# 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" 12.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:38.019
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 7.785
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 9.637
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.774
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.852
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 12.188
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.416
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.075
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40.298
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 8.975
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.680
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:46.079
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.972
When I enable persistence 13.083
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.456
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.699
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.285
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.273
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.633
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.486
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.229
When I cold reboot the computer 6.218
And the computer reboots Tails 36.921
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.295
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.217
Given I enable persistence 7.004
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.341
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.763
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:10.075
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 8.270
# 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 25.697
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.598
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.152
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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37.847
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.042
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.277
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.639
Then persistence is disabled 0.192
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.261
And all notifications have disappeared 8.355
When I delete the persistent partition 2.799
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.051
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 8.073
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.435
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.247
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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42.681
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.909
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.904
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.983
And all notifications have disappeared 7.894
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.019
And all tps features are enabled 1.505
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.889
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 30.843
And I enable persistence 20.013
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.760
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.581
And persistence is enabled 1.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.584
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.142
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.938
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.995
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 8.319
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.837
When I enable persistence 5.911
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.996
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 7.832
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.648
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.957
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.526
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.226
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.070
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 7.626
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.044
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.040
When I log in to a new session 9.839
And all notifications have disappeared 9.926
# 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" 0.224
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.549
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.190
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 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.307
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 7.511
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.963
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.343
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.504
When I log in to a new session 11.554
And all notifications have disappeared 8.631
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.673
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000