Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6179 01 Mar 2026, 11:09

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 21:30.484 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.874
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.926
And I update APT using apt 5.792
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.335
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.183
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 8.583
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.643
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.108
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.619
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.370
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.678
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.456
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.314
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.314
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.190
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
27.444
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 7.542
And the system is very low on memory 2.974
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.537
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.101
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.342
And I free up some memory 0.789
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.953
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.306
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 enabled and logged in 8.083
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
And all tps features are active 1.103
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.252
When I disable the first tps feature 2.452
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.472
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.514
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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12.987
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 7.667
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.089
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.476
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.437
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.732
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 enabled and logged in 7.128
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.534
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.886
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.528
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 7.139
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 16.577
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.270
When I write some files expected to persist 1.123
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.352
# 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" 12.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:22.799
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 7.479
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 16.120
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.771
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.013
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.713
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.387
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.047
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
38.026
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.471
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.112
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.811
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.841
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 8.526
When I enable persistence 15.439
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.798
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.792
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.361
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.288
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.539
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.880
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
When I cold reboot the computer 6.183
And the computer reboots Tails 36.447
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.375
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.228
Given I enable persistence 7.408
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
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 9.963
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:17.402
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 8.286
# 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 29.431
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.669
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.260
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
Tags: @product
39.018
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 8.269
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.742
Then persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.389
And all notifications have disappeared 8.233
When I delete the persistent partition 2.841
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.196
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 7.929
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.417
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.543
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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41.651
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 7.575
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.141
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.785
And all notifications have disappeared 7.948
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.486
And all tps features are enabled 1.214
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.486
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 31.153
And I enable persistence 20.551
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.420
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.638
And persistence is enabled 1.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.269
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.381
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.398
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.344
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 7.694
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.913
When I enable persistence 6.775
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.267
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 7.818
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.543
When I try to enable persistence 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.507
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.614
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.235
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.545
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 7.869
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.899
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.136
And all notifications have disappeared 8.426
# 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" 0.168
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.110
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.268
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.349
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.468
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 7.686
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.287
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.343
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.082
When I log in to a new session 10.041
And all notifications have disappeared 9.140
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.665
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000