Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6175 26 Feb 2026, 17:09

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 31:15.795 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:10.128
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:54.452
And I update APT using apt 8.215
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.350
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.886
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 12.868
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.420
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.335
And persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:0.684
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 13.284
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.400
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.164
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.598
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.357
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.497
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.206
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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37.195
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 10.841
And the system is very low on memory 4.257
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.210
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.803
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.145
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.532
And I free up some memory 0.926
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.904
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:53.813
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 12.011
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.414
And all tps features are active 2.175
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.337
When I disable the first tps feature 3.262
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.906
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.275
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.479
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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16.172
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 10.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.692
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.540
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.552
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 9.450
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I disable the first tps feature 2.760
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.103
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:11.794
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 9.412
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 21.436
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.717
When I write some files expected to persist 1.344
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.162
# 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" 17.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:36.880
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 10.337
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 19.714
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.172
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.466
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.059
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.069
And Tor is ready 23.199
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.479
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.097
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.086
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51.616
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 12.260
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.120
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.758
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.476
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:18.852
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 12.776
When I enable persistence 22.289
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.716
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.103
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.544
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.467
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.705
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.180
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.201
When I cold reboot the computer 12.039
And the computer reboots Tails 40.866
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.469
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.388
Given I enable persistence 11.207
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.110
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.366
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.263
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:30.638
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 11.880
# 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 30.432
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.914
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:15.271
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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50.390
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 12.363
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.491
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.844
And all notifications have disappeared 10.280
When I delete the persistent partition 2.847
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:39.699
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 10.535
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.763
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.080
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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54.432
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 10.298
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.784
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.864
And all notifications have disappeared 9.660
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.416
And all tps features are enabled 2.215
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:57.910
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:15.450
And I enable persistence 28.075
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.598
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.771
And persistence is enabled 2.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.156
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 9.073
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.396
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.465
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 11.639
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.910
When I enable persistence 12.518
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.912
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 10.966
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.778
When I try to enable persistence 1.343
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.085
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.899
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.283
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.118
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 10.977
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.608
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.320
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I log in to a new session 12.187
And all notifications have disappeared 10.509
# 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 0.588
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.232
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.895
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.494
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 10.638
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.169
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.351
When I try to enable persistence 1.255
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.668
When I log in to a new session 12.286
And all notifications have disappeared 10.415
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.359
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000