Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6143 11 Feb 2026, 21:03

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 20:55.596 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.510
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 1:22.213
And I update APT using apt 6.088
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.264
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.576
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 9.552
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.612
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.395
And persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.384
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 9.022
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.402
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.918
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.474
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.548
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.641
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.204
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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31.674
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.074
And the system is very low on memory 3.354
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.226
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.018
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.099
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.428
And I free up some memory 0.971
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.008
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.115
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 8.410
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.368
And all tps features are active 1.138
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.846
When I disable the first tps feature 3.061
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.500
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.661
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.943
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.860
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 8.110
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.611
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.517
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.171
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.933
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 7.673
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.178
And I disable the first tps feature 3.064
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.869
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.675
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 7.751
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 10.699
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.170
When I write some files expected to persist 1.357
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.175
# 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" 12.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:45.600
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 7.687
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.905
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.151
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.876
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.775
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 12.597
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.373
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.092
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
43.267
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 9.400
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.089
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.535
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.576
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 8.965
When I enable persistence 15.411
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.158
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.741
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.302
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.255
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.547
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.712
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
When I cold reboot the computer 10.274
And the computer reboots Tails 36.641
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.269
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.239
Given I enable persistence 7.594
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.271
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.820
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:11.151
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 8.644
# 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 27.842
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.054
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.772
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
38.651
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 7.368
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.291
Then persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.065
And all notifications have disappeared 8.659
When I delete the persistent partition 2.779
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.812
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 7.577
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.139
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.800
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
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41.236
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 7.516
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.104
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.896
And all notifications have disappeared 7.976
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.332
And all tps features are enabled 1.107
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.436
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 30.927
And I enable persistence 19.090
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.128
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.585
And persistence is enabled 1.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.680
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 7.148
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.991
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.102
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.724
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.464
When I enable persistence 7.132
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.670
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 7.802
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.269
When I try to enable persistence 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.368
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.355
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.209
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.470
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 7.465
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.424
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.444
And all notifications have disappeared 9.071
# 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" 0.240
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.087
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.313
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.208
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 7.648
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.141
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.319
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.654
When I log in to a new session 11.607
And all notifications have disappeared 8.354
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.510
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000