Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6147 14 Feb 2026, 11:45

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 20:56.828 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:5.580
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:52.078
And I update APT using apt 6.151
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.293
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.093
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 8.645
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.110
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.266
And persistence is disabled 0.174
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.303
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 8.987
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.934
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.509
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.202
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.868
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.219
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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29.817
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.068
And the system is very low on memory 3.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.167
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.890
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.339
And I free up some memory 0.847
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.871
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.482
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 8.422
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
And all tps features are active 1.154
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.182
When I disable the first tps feature 3.070
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.233
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.592
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.342
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.583
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 enabled and logged in 8.136
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.982
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 7.312
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 2.587
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.891
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.210
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 7.601
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 9.496
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.225
When I write some files expected to persist 1.319
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.282
# 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" 12.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:43.258
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 7.421
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 10.482
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.236
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.939
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 11.439
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.393
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.092
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
Tags: @product
39.218
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 8.349
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 11.810
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:44.241
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 8.771
When I enable persistence 12.545
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.142
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.810
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.369
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.254
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.513
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.437
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
When I cold reboot the computer 6.483
And the computer reboots Tails 36.226
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.248
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.172
Given I enable persistence 8.406
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.060
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.266
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.279
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:11.321
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 8.727
# 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 29.642
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.755
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.645
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
38.835
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.888
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.466
Then persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.772
And all notifications have disappeared 8.493
When I delete the persistent partition 2.716
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.799
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 7.560
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.701
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.259
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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40.338
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 7.652
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.885
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.173
And all notifications have disappeared 7.908
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.236
And all tps features are enabled 1.029
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.869
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 30.112
And I enable persistence 18.979
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.633
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.602
And persistence is enabled 1.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.613
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 7.012
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.956
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.442
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 8.388
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.319
When I enable persistence 6.520
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.036
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.375
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 7.921
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.628
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.626
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.512
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.179
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.890
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 7.734
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.245
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.336
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.108
And all notifications have disappeared 8.948
# 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" 0.223
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.621
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.237
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.377
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.569
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 7.936
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.234
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.306
When I try to enable persistence 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.784
When I log in to a new session 10.794
And all notifications have disappeared 9.189
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.266
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000