Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6155 18 Feb 2026, 19:51

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 24:43.471 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.450
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 1:21.142
And I update APT using apt 7.102
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.265
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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50.932
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 8.689
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.329
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 26.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.237
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 22.898
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.418
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.107
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.755
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.460
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.809
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.539
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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35.840
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 7.823
And the system is very low on memory 9.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.293
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.735
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.376
And I free up some memory 0.783
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.036
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.376
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.038
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.541
And all tps features are active 1.180
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.944
When I disable the first tps feature 2.709
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.209
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.414
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.177
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.267
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 7.329
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.082
When I disable the first tps feature 3.030
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.247
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 7.532
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.629
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.909
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.197
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 7.541
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 18.693
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.294
When I write some files expected to persist 1.248
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.542
# 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" 12.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.654
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 7.712
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 18.650
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.095
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.445
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.113
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 21.947
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.434
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
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50.816
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.802
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.184
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.052
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:3.293
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 8.837
When I enable persistence 25.460
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.540
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.822
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.282
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.276
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.495
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.135
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.120
When I cold reboot the computer 9.122
And the computer reboots Tails 37.589
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.299
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.212
Given I enable persistence 6.779
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.245
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.835
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:17.377
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 8.071
# 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 33.950
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.086
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.184
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
50.989
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 7.931
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.567
Then persistence is disabled 0.081
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.622
And all notifications have disappeared 8.843
When I delete the persistent partition 2.630
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:20.340
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 7.351
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.819
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.855
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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54.251
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 8.206
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.574
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.041
And all notifications have disappeared 8.323
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.279
And all tps features are enabled 1.486
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.476
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 41.115
And I enable persistence 25.879
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.396
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.549
And persistence is enabled 1.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.916
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 7.289
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.000
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.964
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 8.442
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.202
When I enable persistence 6.535
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.521
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 8.259
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 19.609
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.546
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.453
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.189
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.757
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 7.803
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.981
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.722
And all notifications have disappeared 9.601
# 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" 0.203
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.539
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.185
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.414
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.561
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 7.996
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.900
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.316
When I try to enable persistence 1.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.821
When I log in to a new session 12.550
And all notifications have disappeared 8.162
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.548
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000