Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6158 21 Feb 2026, 11:42

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 20:43.137 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.291
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.448
And I update APT using apt 5.776
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.254
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.058
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 8.524
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.954
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.269
And persistence is disabled 0.087
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.208
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.310
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.301
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.806
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.454
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.273
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.747
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.161
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
Tags: @product
27.184
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 7.391
And the system is very low on memory 3.002
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.187
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.580
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.122
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.355
And I free up some memory 0.813
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.663
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:23.017
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 8.244
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
And all tps features are active 1.258
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.865
When I disable the first tps feature 2.465
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.729
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.879
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
12.745
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 7.372
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.601
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 7.093
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.428
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.858
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.976
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 7.224
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.079
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.259
When I write some files expected to persist 1.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.625
# 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" 11.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:16.315
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 7.295
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 16.931
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.143
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.698
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.606
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 21.821
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.563
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.046
Tags: @product
37.330
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 8.498
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.100
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.999
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:42.683
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 8.499
When I enable persistence 12.790
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.232
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.277
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.322
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.200
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.556
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.227
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
When I cold reboot the computer 9.945
And the computer reboots Tails 34.885
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.284
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.200
Given I enable persistence 6.707
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.267
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.866
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:9.515
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 8.120
# 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 27.431
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.345
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.505
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
37.421
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 7.771
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.813
Then persistence is disabled 0.084
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.418
And all notifications have disappeared 8.372
When I delete the persistent partition 2.626
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:14.182
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 7.251
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.371
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.268
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
40.355
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 7.548
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.171
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.981
And all notifications have disappeared 7.954
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.354
And all tps features are enabled 1.052
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.941
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 30.876
And I enable persistence 18.925
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.099
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.541
And persistence is enabled 1.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.890
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 6.912
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.452
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.595
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 8.364
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.793
When I enable persistence 5.737
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.608
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 7.838
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.355
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.406
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.387
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.164
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.383
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 7.624
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.513
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 11.020
And all notifications have disappeared 8.969
# 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" 0.130
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.396
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.179
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.225
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.827
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 7.535
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.595
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.349
When I try to enable persistence 1.206
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.791
When I log in to a new session 9.483
And all notifications have disappeared 9.541
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.583
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000