Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6091 25 Jan 2026, 11:13

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 19:53.051 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:27.935
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 1:15.044
And I update APT using apt 5.848
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.214
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.096
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 8.618
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.100
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.214
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.081
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 8.696
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.218
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.491
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.276
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.800
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.168
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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28.189
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 7.675
And the system is very low on memory 2.964
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.374
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.490
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.419
And I free up some memory 0.771
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.338
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.928
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 8.080
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
And all tps features are active 1.120
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.851
When I disable the first tps feature 2.531
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.813
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.016
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
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12.930
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 7.601
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.514
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.422
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.800
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 7.247
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.487
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.902
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.044
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 7.343
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.338
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.168
When I write some files expected to persist 1.284
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.256
# 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" 11.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:39.070
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 7.359
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.174
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.404
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.407
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.069
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.333
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.069
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37.493
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.489
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.329
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:45.080
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 8.371
When I enable persistence 13.181
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.220
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.317
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.289
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.199
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.528
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.264
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.126
When I cold reboot the computer 9.961
And the computer reboots Tails 35.074
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.279
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
Given I enable persistence 6.758
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.283
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.745
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
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2:6.085
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 8.105
# 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 25.466
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.424
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.050
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
37.130
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 8.356
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.563
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.995
And all notifications have disappeared 8.152
When I delete the persistent partition 2.616
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:20.173
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 7.902
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.344
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.649
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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40.200
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 7.896
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.147
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.054
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.972
And all notifications have disappeared 7.926
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.264
And all tps features are enabled 0.910
And all tps features but the first one are active 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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58.898
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 29.893
And I enable persistence 17.939
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.185
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.493
And persistence is enabled 1.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.956
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 6.998
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.387
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.296
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 8.344
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.489
When I enable persistence 6.596
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.690
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 7.903
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.146
When I try to enable persistence 1.368
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.406
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.443
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.182
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.961
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 7.619
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.398
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 9.786
And all notifications have disappeared 9.185
# 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 0.082
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.164
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.202
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.006
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 7.816
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.565
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.379
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.102
When I log in to a new session 9.988
And all notifications have disappeared 8.932
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.231
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000