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test_Tails_ISO_stable 6172 25 Feb 2026, 17:36

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 27:3.356 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.246
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 1:21.724
And I update APT using apt 6.423
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.238
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.816
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 8.933
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.825
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 30.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:20.070
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 9.037
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.411
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 54.505
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.407
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.643
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.705
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.209
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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44.486
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 7.474
And the system is very low on memory 16.732
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.724
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.842
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 2.422
And I free up some memory 0.969
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.801
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:3.973
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 8.811
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.615
And all tps features are active 1.233
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.078
When I disable the first tps feature 2.717
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.096
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 35.926
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.402
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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13.007
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 7.545
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 2.508
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.038
When I enable the first tps feature 2.522
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.756
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 7.118
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.555
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.900
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.690
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 7.180
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 18.506
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.190
When I write some files expected to persist 1.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.643
# 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" 12.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:46.481
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 7.508
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 40.801
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
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 1:14.657
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 21.935
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.379
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
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1:14.148
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 8.727
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.123
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.048
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 44.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:54.880
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 9.043
When I enable persistence 25.364
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.408
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.410
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.337
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.251
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.477
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.971
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
When I cold reboot the computer 6.141
And the computer reboots Tails 35.199
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.308
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.227
Given I enable persistence 6.974
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.242
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.026
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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2:26.183
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 7.701
# 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 33.044
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.650
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.653
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
52.744
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 7.585
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.928
Then persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.497
And all notifications have disappeared 8.566
When I delete the persistent partition 2.726
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.358
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.934
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 7.557
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.612
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.488
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
48.562
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 7.922
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.098
When I try to enable persistence 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.191
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.622
And all notifications have disappeared 8.126
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.238
And all tps features are enabled 1.101
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.172
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 49.860
And I enable persistence 27.739
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.384
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.617
And persistence is enabled 1.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.780
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 7.250
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.007
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.157
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 8.739
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 38.795
When I enable persistence 6.784
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.776
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 7.928
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 29.324
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.559
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.361
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.185
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.326
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 7.690
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.074
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 11.806
And all notifications have disappeared 8.604
# 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" 0.216
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.109
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.158
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.338
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.159
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 7.883
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 19.927
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.348
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.976
When I log in to a new session 11.053
And all notifications have disappeared 8.590
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.383
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000