Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6087 23 Jan 2026, 07:26

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 21:38.513 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.193
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.670
And I update APT using apt 6.068
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.310
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.488
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 9.245
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.401
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.383
And persistence is disabled 0.200
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:46.700
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 9.314
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.392
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.127
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.847
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.533
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.961
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.170
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.244
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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31.230
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.321
And the system is very low on memory 3.113
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.268
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.068
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.252
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.504
And I free up some memory 0.997
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.199
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:38.232
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 8.487
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.325
And all tps features are active 1.518
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.545
When I disable the first tps feature 2.566
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.315
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.237
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.061
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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14.034
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 7.865
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.088
When I disable the first tps feature 3.025
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.079
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.595
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.079
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.676
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 3.029
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.134
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.452
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 7.977
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.037
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.202
When I write some files expected to persist 1.507
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.636
# 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" 13.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:44.961
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 7.728
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 11.159
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.168
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.966
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.935
And I capture all network traffic 0.030
And the network is plugged 0.087
And Tor is ready 12.269
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.428
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.072
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42.405
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.135
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.129
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.058
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:55.723
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 9.473
When I enable persistence 14.365
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.707
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.086
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.354
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.251
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.492
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.283
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
When I cold reboot the computer 9.090
And the computer reboots Tails 38.852
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.303
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.166
Given I enable persistence 8.712
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.070
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.214
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.006
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:17.111
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 8.397
# 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 30.739
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.707
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.203
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
39.471
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 7.821
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.167
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.482
And all notifications have disappeared 8.664
When I delete the persistent partition 2.811
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.875
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 7.685
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.770
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.068
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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43.355
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 8.517
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.277
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.989
And all notifications have disappeared 8.229
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.297
And all tps features are enabled 1.273
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.984
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 33.337
And I enable persistence 21.632
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.407
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.660
And persistence is enabled 1.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.523
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 7.184
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.784
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.750
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 8.565
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.905
When I enable persistence 6.933
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.132
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 8.097
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.997
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.535
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.580
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.211
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.465
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 7.859
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.689
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.037
When I log in to a new session 11.451
And all notifications have disappeared 9.415
# 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 0.482
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.192
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.403
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.338
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 8.505
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.866
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.351
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.456
When I log in to a new session 11.554
And all notifications have disappeared 8.759
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.748
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000