Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6194 11 Mar 2026, 07:15

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 27:23.134 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.233
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 1:20.520
And I update APT using apt 6.571
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.268
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.732
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 8.608
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.222
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.242
And persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 38.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.313
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 8.887
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.522
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.184
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 47.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.467
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.912
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.025
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.202
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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42.461
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 7.619
And the system is very low on memory 16.452
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.949
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.748
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.088
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.367
And I free up some memory 0.817
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.353
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:58.040
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 9.522
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.482
And all tps features are active 1.349
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.895
When I disable the first tps feature 2.678
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.221
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 29.081
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.617
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.285
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 7.853
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.576
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.051
When I enable the first tps feature 2.428
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.202
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 7.567
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.608
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.872
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.442
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 7.180
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 17.718
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.314
When I write some files expected to persist 1.012
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.023
# 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" 12.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:44.047
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 7.527
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 17.236
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.313
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.539
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 41.623
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.430
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
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1:5.180
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 8.597
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.562
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.560
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 41.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:17.813
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 9.041
When I enable persistence 38.639
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.574
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.894
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.466
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.527
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.441
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.138
When I cold reboot the computer 10.276
And the computer reboots Tails 36.835
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.298
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.229
Given I enable persistence 7.021
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.063
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.253
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.713
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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2:48.247
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 8.561
# 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 47.597
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 27.931
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.597
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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1:14.696
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.071
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.745
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 39.478
And all notifications have disappeared 9.200
When I delete the persistent partition 2.729
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.602
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 7.871
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.516
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.853
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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50.313
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.780
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.127
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.686
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.969
And all notifications have disappeared 8.182
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.225
And all tps features are enabled 1.136
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.414
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 45.956
And I enable persistence 25.705
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.439
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.665
And persistence is enabled 1.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.644
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 7.278
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.814
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.208
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 8.206
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 27.792
When I enable persistence 6.582
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.226
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 7.339
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 25.815
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.211
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.244
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.142
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.535
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 7.575
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 22.058
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 12.508
And all notifications have disappeared 8.583
# 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" 0.156
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.094
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.177
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.252
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.490
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 7.736
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.614
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.335
When I try to enable persistence 1.355
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.328
When I log in to a new session 11.130
And all notifications have disappeared 8.739
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.420
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000