Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6173 26 Feb 2026, 08:26

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 31:38.538 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:10.536
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 1:55.058
And I update APT using apt 7.837
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.360
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.886
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 28.295
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.682
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.369
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.564
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 13.996
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.352
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.151
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.678
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.659
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.414
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.053
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.201
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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37.235
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 10.891
And the system is very low on memory 4.241
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.243
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.693
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.133
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.550
And I free up some memory 0.986
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.924
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.531
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 enabled and logged in 12.548
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.421
And all tps features are active 2.037
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.183
When I disable the first tps feature 2.680
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.964
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.974
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.832
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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15.426
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 9.692
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.088
When I disable the first tps feature 2.654
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.538
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.325
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 9.385
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.729
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.012
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.204
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 enabled and logged in 9.739
And the network is plugged 0.238
And Tor is ready 21.977
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.755
When I write some files expected to persist 1.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.647
# 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" 17.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:45.814
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 9.908
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 17.975
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.281
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.441
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:27.244
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 24.020
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.424
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.067
Tags: @product
53.105
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.698
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.094
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.069
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.635
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 13.143
When I enable persistence 20.013
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.621
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.812
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.537
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.458
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.660
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.644
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.182
When I cold reboot the computer 11.721
And the computer reboots Tails 41.823
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.468
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.298
Given I enable persistence 10.889
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.100
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.477
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.594
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:22.425
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 11.576
# 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 29.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.718
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:13.625
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
46.108
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 10.853
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.879
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.800
And all notifications have disappeared 10.072
When I delete the persistent partition 2.972
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.813
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 10.973
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.659
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.840
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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56.994
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 10.168
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.096
When I try to enable persistence 1.299
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.322
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.425
And all notifications have disappeared 9.563
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.397
And all tps features are enabled 2.634
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:10.269
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 5:26.138
And I enable persistence 29.352
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.959
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.706
And persistence is enabled 2.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.881
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.551
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.669
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.790
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 12.330
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.413
When I enable persistence 10.547
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.066
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 11.072
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.166
When I try to enable persistence 1.356
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.957
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.701
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.283
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.650
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 10.364
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.758
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.333
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 13.145
And all notifications have disappeared 11.298
# 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" 0.209
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.596
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.292
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.995
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.271
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 10.787
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.042
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.367
When I try to enable persistence 1.247
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.596
When I log in to a new session 13.470
And all notifications have disappeared 10.217
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.410
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000