Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6177 27 Feb 2026, 11:57

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 31:31.822 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:18.601
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 2:2.723
And I update APT using apt 8.497
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.319
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.633
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 12.251
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.720
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.442
And persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.666
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 13.550
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.228
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.571
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.742
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.498
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.564
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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52.609
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 26.188
And the system is very low on memory 4.293
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.229
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.728
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.113
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.477
And I free up some memory 0.949
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.133
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.895
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 12.613
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.412
And all tps features are active 2.305
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.340
When I disable the first tps feature 2.763
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.920
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.215
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.329
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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16.344
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 10.439
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.108
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 2.849
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.094
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.541
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.692
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 10.298
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 3.135
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.067
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.738
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 10.235
And the network is plugged 0.069
And Tor is ready 22.391
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.759
When I write some files expected to persist 1.240
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.413
# 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" 17.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:39.960
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 10.126
And the network is plugged 0.088
And Tor is ready 18.318
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.538
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.488
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.667
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.090
And Tor is ready 22.908
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.407
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.094
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.067
Tags: @product
51.629
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 12.128
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.116
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.563
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:20.976
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 12.577
When I enable persistence 22.396
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.843
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.182
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.553
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.456
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.672
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.435
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
When I cold reboot the computer 11.937
And the computer reboots Tails 42.623
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.469
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.385
Given I enable persistence 11.030
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.110
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.433
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.564
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:24.749
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 11.968
# 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 29.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.693
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:15.552
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
46.331
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 10.772
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.661
Then persistence is disabled 0.135
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.305
And all notifications have disappeared 10.042
When I delete the persistent partition 2.969
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:39.358
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 11.907
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.615
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.524
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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53.420
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 10.071
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.315
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.744
And all notifications have disappeared 9.367
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.324
And all tps features are enabled 2.199
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:58.359
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 5:15.422
And I enable persistence 28.075
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.043
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.625
And persistence is enabled 2.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.481
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 9.160
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.662
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.611
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 11.078
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.598
When I enable persistence 12.584
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.987
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 10.043
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.333
When I try to enable persistence 1.316
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.952
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.630
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.260
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.767
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 9.778
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.535
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I log in to a new session 12.148
And all notifications have disappeared 11.565
# 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" 0.251
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.567
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.387
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.906
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.007
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.095
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.126
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.396
When I try to enable persistence 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.262
When I log in to a new session 11.171
And all notifications have disappeared 11.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.282
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000