Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6193 10 Mar 2026, 14:46

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 23:24.868 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.783
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 1:22.646
And I update APT using apt 6.497
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.381
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.676
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.334
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.027
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.354
And persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.795
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 9.569
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.342
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.194
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 8.221
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.593
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.177
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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31.158
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 8.592
And the system is very low on memory 3.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.239
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.885
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.165
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.429
And I free up some memory 0.922
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.305
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.139
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 9.142
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.329
And all tps features are active 1.385
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.204
When I disable the first tps feature 3.032
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.398
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.856
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.320
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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15.028
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 9.060
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I disable the first tps feature 3.053
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.447
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.094
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 8.180
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.767
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.937
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.852
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.867
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 40.939
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.283
When I write some files expected to persist 1.452
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.303
# 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" 12.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.491
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 7.735
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 16.402
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.442
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.820
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 23.380
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.367
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.074
Tags: @product
43.725
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.309
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.093
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.474
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:0.856
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 9.241
When I enable persistence 15.717
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.944
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.369
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.615
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.275
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.626
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.736
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
When I cold reboot the computer 10.928
And the computer reboots Tails 38.937
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.301
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.249
Given I enable persistence 8.048
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.081
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.267
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.169
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:14.164
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 8.597
# 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 29.575
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.003
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.375
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
42.877
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.087
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.798
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.989
And all notifications have disappeared 8.594
When I delete the persistent partition 2.897
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.036
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.081
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.990
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.554
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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47.857
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 8.883
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.335
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.467
And all notifications have disappeared 8.231
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.802
And all tps features are enabled 1.496
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.663
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 33.887
And I enable persistence 21.275
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.241
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.552
And persistence is enabled 1.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.356
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
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 7.467
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.301
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.966
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 9.776
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.763
When I enable persistence 8.422
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.085
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.368
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 8.079
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.732
When I try to enable persistence 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.320
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.458
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.143
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.358
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.589
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.249
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.519
And all notifications have disappeared 9.299
# 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" 0.199
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.113
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.197
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.822
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.615
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 8.102
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.675
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.411
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.923
When I log in to a new session 11.143
And all notifications have disappeared 8.514
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.724
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000