Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6168 25 Feb 2026, 11:37

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 22:14.010 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.431
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 1:20.292
And I update APT using apt 5.315
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.355
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.218
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 9.322
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.156
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.359
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.827
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.032
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.952
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.382
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.106
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.872
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.544
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.094
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.611
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.208
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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30.950
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 8.400
And the system is very low on memory 3.031
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.250
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.761
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.139
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.438
And I free up some memory 1.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.381
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.608
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 8.344
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.403
And all tps features are active 1.398
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.504
When I disable the first tps feature 2.620
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.309
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.772
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.898
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
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13.265
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 7.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.096
When I disable the first tps feature 2.606
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.084
When I enable the first tps feature 2.611
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.511
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 7.835
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.591
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.901
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.156
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 7.850
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 17.220
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.332
When I write some files expected to persist 1.379
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.948
# 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" 13.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:14.353
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.614
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 16.958
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.621
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.608
And I capture all network traffic 0.014
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 22.659
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.461
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.108
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.067
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43.226
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 9.033
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.067
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.725
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:53.106
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.845
When I enable persistence 14.736
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.310
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.935
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.306
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.285
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.536
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.763
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
When I cold reboot the computer 9.635
And the computer reboots Tails 38.282
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.332
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
Given I enable persistence 8.070
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.264
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.152
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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2:15.536
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 8.547
# 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 30.475
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.266
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.442
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
41.811
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 9.059
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.588
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.409
And all notifications have disappeared 8.398
When I delete the persistent partition 2.829
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.989
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 8.684
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.116
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.900
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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44.451
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 8.770
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.576
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.958
And all notifications have disappeared 8.494
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.357
And all tps features are enabled 1.608
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.957
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 35.262
And I enable persistence 21.505
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.830
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.607
And persistence is enabled 1.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.270
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 7.277
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.447
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.605
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 8.813
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.293
When I enable persistence 6.975
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.006
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 8.681
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.975
When I try to enable persistence 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.789
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.543
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.121
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.255
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.790
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 7.590
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.688
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 12.494
And all notifications have disappeared 9.277
# 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" 0.190
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.587
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.241
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.517
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.937
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 8.610
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.048
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.322
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.112
When I log in to a new session 11.153
And all notifications have disappeared 8.276
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.106
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000