Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6133 10 Feb 2026, 12:02

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 24:32.182 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.836
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 1:21.665
And I update APT using apt 6.898
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.304
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.319
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 9.104
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.510
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 19.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:9.899
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.663
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.356
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.106
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 39.556
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.537
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.874
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.536
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.210
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
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35.936
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 7.905
And the system is very low on memory 8.272
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.202
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.644
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.108
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.412
And I free up some memory 0.827
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.966
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:54.293
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 9.087
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And all tps features are active 1.426
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.246
When I disable the first tps feature 2.989
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.481
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.187
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.297
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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14.019
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 8.410
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.692
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.061
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.484
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.104
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 7.668
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I disable the first tps feature 3.261
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.934
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.197
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 7.615
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 10.445
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.190
When I write some files expected to persist 1.315
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.397
# 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" 13.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:49.978
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 7.471
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.662
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.198
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.297
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.599
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.404
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
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54.026
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 8.881
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.129
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.155
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 29.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:16.964
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 9.449
When I enable persistence 29.828
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.380
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.974
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.389
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.205
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.505
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.738
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
When I cold reboot the computer 10.496
And the computer reboots Tails 44.632
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.302
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.260
Given I enable persistence 8.452
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.335
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.592
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:30.983
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 8.674
# 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 39.976
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.128
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.260
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
47.546
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 8.336
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.343
Then persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.832
And all notifications have disappeared 8.798
When I delete the persistent partition 2.771
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:37.237
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 8.304
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.124
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.506
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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48.204
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 8.080
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.405
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.025
And all notifications have disappeared 7.881
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.260
And all tps features are enabled 1.023
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:18.541
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 37.978
And I enable persistence 26.911
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.307
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.628
And persistence is enabled 1.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.537
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 7.567
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.328
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.587
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 8.453
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 21.965
When I enable persistence 7.234
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.123
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 7.762
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.497
When I try to enable persistence 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.586
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.487
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.147
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.663
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 7.824
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.140
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.165
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 11.977
And all notifications have disappeared 9.251
# 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" 0.228
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.509
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.160
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.210
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.178
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 7.925
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.859
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.429
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.420
When I log in to a new session 11.212
And all notifications have disappeared 8.080
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.514
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000