Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6145 13 Feb 2026, 08:11

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 30:9.401 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:8.468
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 1:53.542
And I update APT using apt 7.272
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.331
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.295
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 12.498
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.833
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.323
And persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.824
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 14.252
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.400
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.530
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.654
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.904
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.625
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.240
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
37.197
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.755
And the system is very low on memory 4.212
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.222
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.953
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.197
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.456
And I free up some memory 0.971
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.893
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.807
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 12.818
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.427
And all tps features are active 2.282
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.158
When I disable the first tps feature 2.787
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.382
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.027
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
16.566
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 10.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 3.105
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.569
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.068
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 9.570
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.114
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I disable the first tps feature 3.114
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.135
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.258
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 9.544
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 13.463
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.587
When I write some files expected to persist 1.294
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.667
# 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" 17.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:56.526
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 9.731
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 10.913
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.154
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.260
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.498
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 12.218
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.382
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.094
Tags: @product
50.463
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 12.409
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.116
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.333
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:16.327
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 12.411
When I enable persistence 20.789
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.745
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.893
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.521
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.473
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.660
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.176
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
When I cold reboot the computer 10.166
And the computer reboots Tails 41.525
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.456
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.330
Given I enable persistence 12.790
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.089
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.422
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.529
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
2:28.513
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 12.537
# 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 30.196
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.894
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.457
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
48.854
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 11.993
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.166
Then persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.101
And all notifications have disappeared 10.061
When I delete the persistent partition 2.981
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.066
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 10.385
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.076
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.127
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.176
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
56.888
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 12.369
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.094
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.564
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.158
And all notifications have disappeared 9.907
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.355
And all tps features are enabled 2.239
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:13.506
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 5:30.804
And I enable persistence 28.460
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.617
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.652
And persistence is enabled 1.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.466
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 9.209
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.590
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.964
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 10.940
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.980
When I enable persistence 10.672
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.316
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.142
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 10.634
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.302
When I try to enable persistence 1.315
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.420
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.703
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.263
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.047
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 10.641
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.104
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.009
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I log in to a new session 12.201
And all notifications have disappeared 11.168
# 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" 0.280
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.588
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.336
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.966
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.147
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 10.158
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.554
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.386
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.548
When I log in to a new session 12.530
And all notifications have disappeared 9.994
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.411
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000