Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6151 17 Feb 2026, 13:10

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 23:31.976 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.359
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 1:23.363
And I update APT using apt 6.596
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.263
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.287
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 9.656
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.835
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.364
And persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 21.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.189
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 8.935
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.480
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 30.301
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.554
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.499
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.056
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.202
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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34.292
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.893
And the system is very low on memory 8.490
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.213
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.255
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.407
And I free up some memory 0.849
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.015
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.948
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 8.766
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.875
And all tps features are active 1.216
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.026
When I disable the first tps feature 2.667
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.191
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.332
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.442
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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14.171
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 8.082
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 3.164
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.097
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 7.786
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 3.145
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.975
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.983
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 8.311
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.986
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.186
When I write some files expected to persist 1.371
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.041
# 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" 13.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:49.682
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 7.774
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 11.018
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.274
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.165
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.840
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 11.884
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.487
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
Tags: @product
50.359
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.718
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.128
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.043
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 27.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:57.251
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 9.248
When I enable persistence 18.885
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.635
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.058
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.422
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.343
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.566
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.367
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.219
When I cold reboot the computer 9.247
And the computer reboots Tails 37.935
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.305
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.208
Given I enable persistence 8.205
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.260
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.095
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:33.474
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 8.548
# 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 35.890
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.673
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.075
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
43.327
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 8.362
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.189
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.693
And all notifications have disappeared 8.555
When I delete the persistent partition 2.789
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:30.702
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 8.034
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.244
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.138
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
47.196
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 8.030
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.569
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.665
And all notifications have disappeared 8.190
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.299
And all tps features are enabled 1.087
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.810
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 35.553
And I enable persistence 29.464
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.258
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.616
And persistence is enabled 1.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.821
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 7.653
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.521
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.019
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.247
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 8.223
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.555
When I enable persistence 6.623
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.038
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.016
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 8.055
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.295
When I try to enable persistence 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.468
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.387
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.145
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.951
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 7.519
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.120
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.874
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 12.834
And all notifications have disappeared 9.451
# 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" 0.331
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.491
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.242
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.786
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.803
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 8.360
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.090
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.361
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.831
When I log in to a new session 12.669
And all notifications have disappeared 8.955
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.532
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000