Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6191 10 Mar 2026, 11:21

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 24:27.739 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:42.710
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 1:27.147
And I update APT using apt 8.103
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.326
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.445
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 9.385
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.888
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.407
And persistence is disabled 0.118
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.436
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:1.615
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 9.196
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.185
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.195
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.670
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.516
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.040
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.575
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 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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34.103
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 8.108
And the system is very low on memory 4.932
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.222
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.133
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.108
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.422
And I free up some memory 0.970
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.699
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:45.073
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 9.064
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.357
And all tps features are active 1.386
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.444
When I disable the first tps feature 3.152
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.337
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.523
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.617
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
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14.273
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 8.088
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.119
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 3.182
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.504
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.388
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 7.862
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.093
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 2.702
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.609
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.253
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 7.806
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 17.507
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.270
When I write some files expected to persist 1.305
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.016
# 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" 13.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.398
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 7.801
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 18.551
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.309
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.225
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 22.732
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.420
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.088
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48.650
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 9.374
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.128
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.173
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:10.380
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 9.120
When I enable persistence 25.978
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.794
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.184
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.390
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.286
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.557
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.496
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.195
When I cold reboot the computer 10.709
And the computer reboots Tails 39.709
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.316
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
Given I enable persistence 9.303
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.105
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.336
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.492
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:23.733
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 8.998
# 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 34.347
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.519
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.093
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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43.583
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 9.038
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.618
Then persistence is disabled 0.152
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.961
And all notifications have disappeared 8.503
When I delete the persistent partition 2.875
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.095
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 8.738
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.845
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.195
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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52.049
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 8.903
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.127
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.457
And all notifications have disappeared 8.339
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.836
And all tps features are enabled 1.896
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:14.506
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 38.633
And I enable persistence 21.929
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.429
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.599
And persistence is enabled 1.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.740
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 7.948
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.201
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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33.672
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 9.031
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 15.419
When I enable persistence 6.884
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.135
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 8.893
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.156
When I try to enable persistence 1.241
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.827
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.218
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.498
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.176
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.185
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 8.363
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.183
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I log in to a new session 12.535
And all notifications have disappeared 9.432
# 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" 0.226
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.146
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.307
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.560
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.744
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.312
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.838
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.374
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.908
When I log in to a new session 12.574
And all notifications have disappeared 9.248
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.486
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000