Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6178 28 Feb 2026, 11:33

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 21:17.292 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.035
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:19.188
And I update APT using apt 5.671
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.271
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.251
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.935
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.846
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
And persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:43.646
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.042
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.464
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.735
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.535
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.669
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.830
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.191
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
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30.820
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 8.301
And the system is very low on memory 3.309
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.286
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.780
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.150
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.444
And I free up some memory 0.943
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.765
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 8.763
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.376
And all tps features are active 1.327
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.149
When I disable the first tps feature 3.194
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.249
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.363
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.000
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.036
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13.362
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 7.952
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.518
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.472
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.003
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 8.068
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 2.744
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.016
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.842
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 7.759
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 17.158
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.444
When I write some files expected to persist 1.782
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.061
# 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" 12.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.377
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 7.393
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 17.060
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.767
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.060
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 22.391
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.353
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.056
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
Tags: @product
40.839
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 8.521
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.061
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.217
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:43.260
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.315
When I enable persistence 13.970
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.239
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.517
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.341
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.200
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.522
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.760
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
When I cold reboot the computer 6.280
And the computer reboots Tails 35.409
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.322
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.237
Given I enable persistence 7.073
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.229
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.440
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:6.116
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 8.295
# 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 27.821
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.350
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.317
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
37.218
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 8.108
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.051
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.649
And all notifications have disappeared 8.272
When I delete the persistent partition 2.641
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.609
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 8.006
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.325
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.955
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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41.542
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 7.606
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.679
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.378
And all notifications have disappeared 8.156
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.279
And all tps features are enabled 1.001
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.846
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 30.487
And I enable persistence 20.350
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.852
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.595
And persistence is enabled 1.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.900
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 7.074
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.282
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.185
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 8.245
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.786
When I enable persistence 6.559
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.786
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 7.595
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.368
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.876
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.318
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.167
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.689
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 7.460
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.574
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 9.682
And all notifications have disappeared 9.346
# 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" 0.284
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.524
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.164
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.329
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.191
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 7.309
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.518
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.339
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.762
When I log in to a new session 9.433
And all notifications have disappeared 8.618
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.265
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000