Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6088 23 Jan 2026, 12:06

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 24:23.386 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.530
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 1:24.403
And I update APT using apt 6.782
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.359
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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54.401
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 9.433
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.064
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
And persistence is disabled 0.135
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 27.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:5.155
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 9.519
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.484
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.180
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 38.421
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.532
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.316
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.355
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.300
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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38.246
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.810
And the system is very low on memory 11.522
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.794
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.639
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.127
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.339
And I free up some memory 0.803
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.161
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.282
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 8.857
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.396
And all tps features are active 1.084
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.987
When I disable the first tps feature 2.594
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.112
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.517
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.530
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.117
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 7.787
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I disable the first tps feature 2.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.062
When I enable the first tps feature 2.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.073
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 7.994
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 3.060
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.855
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.064
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 7.521
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.052
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.241
When I write some files expected to persist 1.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.824
# 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" 12.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:49.396
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 7.692
And the network is plugged 0.043
And Tor is ready 10.278
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.102
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.237
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.822
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 11.633
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.417
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.050
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
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52.370
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 8.781
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 15.975
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:4.550
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.270
When I enable persistence 25.240
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.446
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.742
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.353
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.278
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.539
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 0.211
When I cold reboot the computer 10.696
And the computer reboots Tails 38.087
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.264
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.270
Given I enable persistence 6.973
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.064
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.325
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.319
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:11.791
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 8.176
# 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 30.501
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.570
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.474
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
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52.253
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 log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.562
Then persistence is disabled 0.354
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 17.777
And all notifications have disappeared 9.398
When I delete the persistent partition 2.678
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.941
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 7.561
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.035
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.030
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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51.375
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 8.034
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.723
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.722
And all notifications have disappeared 8.215
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.277
And all tps features are enabled 0.968
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.751
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 43.492
And I enable persistence 28.995
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.435
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.604
And persistence is enabled 2.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.831
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 20.254
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.062
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.198
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 8.493
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.720
When I enable persistence 10.833
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.955
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 8.012
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.031
When I try to enable persistence 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.791
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.240
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.194
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.037
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 7.999
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.713
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 12.022
And all notifications have disappeared 9.656
# 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" 0.259
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.530
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.194
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.362
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.060
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 7.772
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 20.273
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.275
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.295
When I log in to a new session 11.754
And all notifications have disappeared 9.174
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.485
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000