Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6165 24 Feb 2026, 21:12

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 40:23.507 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:22.639
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 2:5.507
And I update APT using apt 8.854
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 7.077
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.742
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 14.324
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.838
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.352
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.106
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 14.716
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.137
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.374
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.682
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.417
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:57.380
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.946
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:16.332
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 18.985
And the system is very low on memory 4.622
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.239
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.279
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.165
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.854
And I free up some memory 1.204
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 41.451
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.602
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 40.419
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.430
And all tps features are active 12.834
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.431
When I disable the first tps feature 2.804
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.209
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:58.499
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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23.471
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 16.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.113
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.090
When I disable the first tps feature 3.360
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 3.129
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.104
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.325
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I disable the first tps feature 3.308
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.220
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.080
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 10.261
And the network is plugged 0.143
And Tor is ready 27.954
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.617
When I write some files expected to persist 1.915
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.134
# 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" 20.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:9.578
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 11.244
And the network is plugged 0.105
And Tor is ready 35.382
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 20.861
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:35.912
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 24.402
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.607
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.205
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
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1:5.559
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.256
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.155
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.752
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 33.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:44.408
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 15.028
When I enable persistence 25.899
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.359
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 45.969
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.540
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.417
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.694
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.361
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.226
When I cold reboot the computer 10.781
And the computer reboots Tails 49.184
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.569
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.386
Given I enable persistence 13.359
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.159
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.929
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.379
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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3:6.286
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 12.979
# 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 38.341
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.661
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:40.853
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:0.100
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 16.360
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.087
Then persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.760
And all notifications have disappeared 10.972
When I delete the persistent partition 4.227
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:50.495
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 12.015
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.686
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:26.053
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:5.910
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 12.028
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.395
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 16.098
And all notifications have disappeared 9.795
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.947
And all tps features are enabled 3.060
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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8:4.933
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
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 6:56.935
And I enable persistence 49.454
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 15.212
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.814
And persistence is enabled 2.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.494
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 10.127
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 41.266
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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54.033
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.048
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 22.095
When I enable persistence 14.769
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 4.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.176
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 11.545
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.653
When I try to enable persistence 1.371
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.832
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 4.149
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.396
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.300
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.334
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 11.176
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.118
When I try to enable persistence 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.801
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I log in to a new session 13.640
And all notifications have disappeared 11.564
# 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" 0.233
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.631
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.380
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.806
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:18.114
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 25.339
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.320
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.627
When I try to enable persistence 1.422
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.555
When I log in to a new session 14.940
And all notifications have disappeared 13.056
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.704
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000