Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6130 09 Feb 2026, 18:56

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 32:2.385 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:16.219
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:0.165
And I update APT using apt 5.607
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.426
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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33.384
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.428
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.820
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
And persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:3.122
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 10.872
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.170
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.474
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.506
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.712
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.296
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.746
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
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39.830
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.270
And the system is very low on memory 1.358
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.216
When I try to create a persistent partition 9.313
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.162
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.527
And I free up some memory 1.507
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.772
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:0.744
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 12.167
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.355
And all tps features are active 4.956
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.526
When I disable the first tps feature 2.725
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.196
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.259
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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19.480
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 12.997
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 2.720
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.156
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 3.136
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.134
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.897
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.280
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I disable the first tps feature 2.889
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.492
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.518
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 9.224
And the network is plugged 0.065
And Tor is ready 13.224
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.587
When I write some files expected to persist 1.408
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.515
# 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" 19.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:17.370
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 11.051
And the network is plugged 0.069
And Tor is ready 9.614
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.822
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:33.442
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.085
And Tor is ready 13.283
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.470
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.096
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.069
Tags: @product
52.244
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.034
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.137
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.117
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:46.888
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 10.635
When I enable persistence 25.933
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.195
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.972
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.565
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.518
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.769
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.245
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 1.974
When I cold reboot the computer 8.517
And the computer reboots Tails 46.603
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.512
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.351
Given I enable persistence 25.174
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.122
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.543
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.051
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:30.796
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 10.992
# 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 21.511
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.926
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:23.854
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
45.321
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 10.711
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.790
Then persistence is disabled 0.157
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.930
And all notifications have disappeared 11.178
When I delete the persistent partition 3.049
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.329
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 10.827
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.783
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:33.780
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
56.153
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.191
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.158
When I try to enable persistence 1.347
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.816
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 15.938
And all notifications have disappeared 9.883
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.621
And all tps features are enabled 2.848
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:19.129
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:34.624
And I enable persistence 28.895
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.030
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.945
And persistence is enabled 2.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.327
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.330
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 35.413
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.252
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 10.261
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.394
When I enable persistence 12.787
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.839
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.721
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.945
When I try to enable persistence 1.307
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.330
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.116
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.463
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.302
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.708
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.998
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.439
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.759
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I log in to a new session 16.125
And all notifications have disappeared 10.111
# 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" 0.335
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.559
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.434
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.187
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.824
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 10.267
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.899
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.388
When I try to enable persistence 1.373
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 6.240
When I log in to a new session 13.501
And all notifications have disappeared 11.095
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.935
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000