Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6089 24 Jan 2026, 08:18

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 26:9.484 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.653
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 1:26.220
And I update APT using apt 6.180
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.289
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.139
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 9.253
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.697
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.254
And persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 34.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.172
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 9.186
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.769
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.135
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 41.791
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.549
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.777
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.630
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.261
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
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41.879
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 7.690
And the system is very low on memory 13.767
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.722
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.305
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.406
And I free up some memory 0.797
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.624
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:56.869
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 8.727
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.448
And all tps features are active 1.583
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.332
When I disable the first tps feature 3.731
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.646
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.032
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.867
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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13.868
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 8.224
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.097
When I disable the first tps feature 2.735
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.476
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.983
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 8.049
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.138
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 2.701
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.955
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.970
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 7.975
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 14.216
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.187
When I write some files expected to persist 1.324
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.589
# 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" 13.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.378
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.858
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 40.700
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.061
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.804
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.114
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.407
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.102
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.080
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1:4.258
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 8.769
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.176
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.070
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 37.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:17.995
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 9.715
When I enable persistence 30.078
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.728
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.233
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.335
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.207
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.607
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.740
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.312
When I cold reboot the computer 10.539
And the computer reboots Tails 42.462
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.189
Given I enable persistence 8.947
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.104
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.376
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.935
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
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2:26.728
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 8.659
# 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 33.176
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.354
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.701
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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51.063
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.357
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.781
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.472
And all notifications have disappeared 9.228
When I delete the persistent partition 2.682
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.370
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 8.266
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.994
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.630
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
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48.265
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 7.778
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.095
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.199
And all notifications have disappeared 8.172
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.269
And all tps features are enabled 1.172
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.607
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 41.888
And I enable persistence 29.696
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.335
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.684
And persistence is enabled 2.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.053
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.684
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.822
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.505
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 8.558
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.933
When I enable persistence 8.251
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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34.006
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 8.169
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.372
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.891
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.721
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.154
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.849
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.064
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.735
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 13.675
And all notifications have disappeared 9.418
# 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" 0.220
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.566
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.164
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.449
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.865
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 8.722
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.675
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.824
When I log in to a new session 11.793
And all notifications have disappeared 9.514
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.865
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000