Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6083 22 Jan 2026, 08:12

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 21:17.946 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.588
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.423
And I update APT using apt 6.036
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.290
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.141
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 9.025
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.679
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
And persistence is disabled 0.146
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.895
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 8.952
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.378
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.707
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.440
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.674
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.168
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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30.519
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 7.762
And the system is very low on memory 3.126
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.307
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.756
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.091
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.336
And I free up some memory 0.820
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.722
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.586
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 8.359
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.390
And all tps features are active 1.372
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.316
When I disable the first tps feature 3.112
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.479
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.500
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.503
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.204
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 7.826
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.501
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.470
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.044
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 7.378
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
And I disable the first tps feature 2.553
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.903
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.582
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 7.326
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 10.147
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.220
When I write some files expected to persist 1.214
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.279
# 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" 12.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.567
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 7.253
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 10.751
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.376
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.785
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 40.559
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.465
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.095
Tags: @product
39.510
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 8.989
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.070
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.501
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.106
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 9.027
When I enable persistence 14.093
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.028
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.702
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.470
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.359
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.585
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.142
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
When I cold reboot the computer 10.141
And the computer reboots Tails 36.650
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.288
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.265
Given I enable persistence 8.410
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.060
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.207
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.355
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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2:13.764
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.695
# 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 27.264
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.731
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.618
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
38.516
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 8.321
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.253
Then persistence is disabled 0.134
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.086
And all notifications have disappeared 8.400
When I delete the persistent partition 2.868
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.344
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 7.586
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.663
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.804
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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42.474
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 8.391
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.129
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.480
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.900
And all notifications have disappeared 8.091
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.307
And all tps features are enabled 1.007
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.609
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 31.822
And I enable persistence 20.450
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.781
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.756
And persistence is enabled 1.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.328
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 7.338
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.303
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.850
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 8.221
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.939
When I enable persistence 6.973
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.776
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 8.523
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.932
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.318
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.420
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.194
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.756
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 8.346
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.058
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.509
And all notifications have disappeared 8.392
# 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" 0.222
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.112
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.235
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.431
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.778
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 7.711
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.712
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.383
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.270
When I log in to a new session 10.173
And all notifications have disappeared 8.996
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.501
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000