Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6138 10 Feb 2026, 22:09

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 33:13.278 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.508
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 1:56.830
And I update APT using apt 8.163
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.359
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.465
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 13.208
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.499
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:19.720
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 30.290
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.354
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.299
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.553
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.514
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.244
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.246
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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39.538
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 11.180
And the system is very low on memory 4.510
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.326
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.766
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.169
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.576
And I free up some memory 1.760
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.620
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.299
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 11.969
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.431
And all tps features are active 2.184
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.496
When I disable the first tps feature 3.128
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.935
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.775
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:26.774
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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17.154
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 10.888
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.097
When I disable the first tps feature 3.140
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.623
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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16.394
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 enabled and logged in 10.046
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 2.868
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.252
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.188
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 9.599
And the network is plugged 0.081
And Tor is ready 45.126
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.592
When I write some files expected to persist 1.477
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.773
# 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" 17.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.492
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 9.745
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 10.372
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.239
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.332
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.384
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 2.065
And Tor is ready 12.521
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.442
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
57.923
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.358
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.144
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.750
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 27.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:40.914
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 13.610
When I enable persistence 26.251
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.283
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.404
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.597
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.382
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.801
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.681
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.190
When I cold reboot the computer 10.477
And the computer reboots Tails 43.329
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.480
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.322
Given I enable persistence 23.532
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.113
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.465
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.802
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:51.942
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 12.166
# 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 32.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.993
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:33.574
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
47.801
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 11.529
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.663
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.705
And all notifications have disappeared 10.364
When I delete the persistent partition 2.981
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.114
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 13.900
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.043
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.803
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:6.879
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 10.515
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.840
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.533
And all notifications have disappeared 16.173
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.764
And all tps features are enabled 2.605
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:28.137
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 5:42.559
And I enable persistence 30.606
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.257
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.632
And persistence is enabled 2.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.843
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 9.394
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.789
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.077
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 11.162
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.418
When I enable persistence 10.777
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.102
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.390
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 10.592
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.098
When I try to enable persistence 1.400
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.582
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.718
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.217
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.497
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 10.213
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.091
When I try to enable persistence 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.826
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 0.073
When I log in to a new session 13.648
And all notifications have disappeared 10.502
# 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" 0.242
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.594
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.312
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.235
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.993
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 10.266
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.946
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.391
When I try to enable persistence 1.334
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.991
When I log in to a new session 12.777
And all notifications have disappeared 10.621
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.554
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000