Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6085 22 Jan 2026, 15:34

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 20:38.275 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.403
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 1:19.468
And I update APT using apt 5.808
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.283
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.950
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 9.108
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.977
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
And persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.005
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 8.786
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.395
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.640
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.537
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.625
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.652
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.165
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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29.174
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 7.871
And the system is very low on memory 3.138
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.353
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.145
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.125
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.385
And I free up some memory 0.806
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.287
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:33.118
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 8.788
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And all tps features are active 1.201
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.073
When I disable the first tps feature 2.508
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.398
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.682
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
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13.182
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 7.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I disable the first tps feature 2.719
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.063
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.423
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I disable the first tps feature 2.513
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.920
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.738
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 7.660
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 9.981
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.177
When I write some files expected to persist 1.450
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.675
# 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" 12.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.922
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 7.382
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 10.211
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.160
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.465
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.413
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 12.599
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.403
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.122
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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41.659
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.841
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.093
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.275
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.160
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 8.408
When I enable persistence 14.611
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.764
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.919
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.418
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.287
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.549
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.750
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
When I cold reboot the computer 10.539
And the computer reboots Tails 37.167
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.261
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.158
Given I enable persistence 7.149
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.247
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.512
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:8.588
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 7.921
# 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 23.451
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.024
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:2.683
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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38.283
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 7.487
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.116
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.885
And all notifications have disappeared 8.541
When I delete the persistent partition 2.749
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:20.499
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 7.395
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.571
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.271
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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42.196
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 7.535
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.937
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.087
And all notifications have disappeared 8.155
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.258
And all tps features are enabled 0.931
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.360
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 30.558
And I enable persistence 20.685
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.989
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.626
And persistence is enabled 1.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.409
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 7.240
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.545
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.796
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 8.167
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.756
When I enable persistence 7.097
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.817
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 7.462
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.869
When I try to enable persistence 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.609
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.146
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.338
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.138
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.234
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 7.660
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.050
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.819
And all notifications have disappeared 9.277
# 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" 0.147
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.442
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.174
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.336
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.709
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 7.797
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.765
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.412
When I try to enable persistence 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.598
When I log in to a new session 9.974
And all notifications have disappeared 8.608
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.476
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000