Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6134 10 Feb 2026, 15:27

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 21:27.408 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.228
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 1:21.945
And I update APT using apt 6.098
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.275
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.362
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 9.394
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.230
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.379
And persistence is disabled 0.179
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.383
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 9.070
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.380
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.154
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.951
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.519
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.617
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.435
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.204
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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30.021
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 7.799
And the system is very low on memory 3.178
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.152
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.636
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.114
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.368
And I free up some memory 0.858
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.331
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:34.488
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 8.541
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And all tps features are active 1.513
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.129
When I disable the first tps feature 3.140
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.373
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.982
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.980
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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13.635
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 8.050
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.616
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.540
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.572
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 7.749
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.714
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.918
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.134
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 7.403
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.065
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.225
When I write some files expected to persist 1.281
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.641
# 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" 12.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:45.679
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 7.676
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 9.860
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.170
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.531
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.157
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 11.642
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.393
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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42.677
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.459
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.117
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.616
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.484
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:53.807
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 8.926
When I enable persistence 14.365
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.390
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.542
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.493
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" 4.630
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.610
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
When I cold reboot the computer 10.551
And the computer reboots Tails 38.954
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.265
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.222
Given I enable persistence 7.858
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.276
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.079
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:19.489
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 8.548
# 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 29.188
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.656
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.267
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
Tags: @product
42.244
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.892
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.886
Then persistence is disabled 0.188
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.488
And all notifications have disappeared 8.528
When I delete the persistent partition 2.800
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.077
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 7.795
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.082
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.599
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.350
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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43.571
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 8.469
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.111
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.322
And all notifications have disappeared 8.586
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.284
And all tps features are enabled 1.471
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.429
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 33.924
And I enable persistence 19.998
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.140
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.595
And persistence is enabled 1.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.713
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 7.603
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.546
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.861
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 8.765
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.208
When I enable persistence 6.882
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.868
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 8.857
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.328
When I try to enable persistence 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.452
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.433
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.188
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.313
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 8.358
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.157
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 12.214
And all notifications have disappeared 9.685
# 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" 0.298
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.537
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.221
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.408
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.846
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 8.300
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 1.413
When I try to enable persistence 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.161
When I log in to a new session 10.002
And all notifications have disappeared 8.498
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.840
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000