Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6090 24 Jan 2026, 11:51

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 20:39.072 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.779
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 1:18.251
And I update APT using apt 6.346
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.263
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.296
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 8.995
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.041
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.346
And persistence is disabled 0.167
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.695
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 8.439
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.395
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.501
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.493
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.846
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.709
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.170
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
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28.356
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 7.379
And the system is very low on memory 3.349
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.183
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.875
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.122
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.395
And I free up some memory 0.795
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.198
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:32.832
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 8.463
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.328
And all tps features are active 1.254
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.915
When I disable the first tps feature 2.507
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.190
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.074
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.068
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.431
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 7.669
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.957
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.420
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.504
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 7.330
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 2.585
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.394
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.078
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 7.463
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.456
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.151
When I write some files expected to persist 1.340
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.515
# 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" 12.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.856
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 7.644
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.618
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.254
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.613
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.587
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 11.412
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.449
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.124
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
40.438
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 8.691
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.098
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.118
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.531
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 8.483
When I enable persistence 14.328
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.591
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.675
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.379
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.541
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.006
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
When I cold reboot the computer 10.637
And the computer reboots Tails 36.161
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.396
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.210
Given I enable persistence 8.207
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.084
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.232
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.910
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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2:7.660
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 8.283
# 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 24.025
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.477
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.126
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
Tags: @product
37.793
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 7.876
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.345
Then persistence is disabled 0.173
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.153
And all notifications have disappeared 8.083
When I delete the persistent partition 2.708
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.285
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 7.816
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.690
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.490
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
Tags: @product
41.910
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 7.614
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.093
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.833
And all notifications have disappeared 8.546
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.289
And all tps features are enabled 1.243
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.344
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 31.296
And I enable persistence 19.918
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.031
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.574
And persistence is enabled 1.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.032
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 7.444
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.873
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.689
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 8.292
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.476
When I enable persistence 6.986
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.296
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 7.620
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.410
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.495
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.299
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.183
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.305
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 7.787
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.990
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.228
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.760
And all notifications have disappeared 9.300
# 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" 0.210
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.487
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.202
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.266
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.952
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 8.109
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.352
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.394
When I log in to a new session 10.393
And all notifications have disappeared 7.847
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.482
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000