Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6142 11 Feb 2026, 20:05

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 23:28.125 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.512
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 1:24.468
And I update APT using apt 7.718
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.305
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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34.000
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 10.337
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.573
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
And persistence is disabled 0.188
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:1.667
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 22.770
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.323
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.197
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.284
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.560
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.314
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.912
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.227
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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33.321
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 8.399
And the system is very low on memory 3.329
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.364
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.268
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.115
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.398
And I free up some memory 0.981
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.913
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.912
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 8.766
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 1.836
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.941
When I disable the first tps feature 3.079
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.575
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.497
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.600
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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14.462
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 8.584
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.084
When I disable the first tps feature 2.801
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.064
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.042
When I enable the first tps feature 2.571
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.914
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 7.760
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 3.107
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.682
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.901
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 8.272
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 11.134
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.263
When I write some files expected to persist 1.803
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.210
# 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" 14.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:23.138
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 7.856
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.414
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.163
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.996
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.209
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 41.826
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.394
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.104
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44.870
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 9.170
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.095
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.132
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:6.248
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 10.190
When I enable persistence 16.153
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.701
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.452
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.386
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.336
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.787
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.629
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.233
When I cold reboot the computer 10.905
And the computer reboots Tails 42.326
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.429
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.285
Given I enable persistence 8.492
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.272
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.413
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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2:17.803
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 enabled and logged in 9.105
# 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 27.757
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.201
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:11.471
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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44.005
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 9.203
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.699
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.604
And all notifications have disappeared 9.003
When I delete the persistent partition 2.788
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:29.238
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 8.150
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.272
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.356
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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48.414
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 9.766
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.241
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.596
And all notifications have disappeared 8.544
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.424
And all tps features are enabled 1.991
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.101
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 34.003
And I enable persistence 22.156
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.388
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.634
And persistence is enabled 1.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.265
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 8.346
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.142
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.912
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 9.244
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.640
When I enable persistence 8.252
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.357
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 8.231
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.984
When I try to enable persistence 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.035
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.878
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.162
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.245
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 8.151
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.710
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 12.541
And all notifications have disappeared 10.100
# 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" 0.276
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.616
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.238
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.348
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.831
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 8.272
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.178
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.349
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.030
When I log in to a new session 12.761
And all notifications have disappeared 9.160
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.900
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000