Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6196 12 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 25:51.221 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:42.921
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 1:26.337
And I update APT using apt 9.101
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.329
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.175
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 9.878
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.247
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.369
And persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 22.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:1.155
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 9.665
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 30.332
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.485
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.093
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.869
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.183
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
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35.050
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 8.502
And the system is very low on memory 6.118
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.198
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.963
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.163
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.415
And I free up some memory 0.909
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.173
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.985
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 8.763
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.484
And all tps features are active 1.465
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.300
When I disable the first tps feature 3.171
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.493
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.148
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.817
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
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15.216
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 enabled and logged in 9.083
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 3.153
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.524
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.868
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 7.898
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.146
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.753
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.933
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.837
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 7.334
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 20.709
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.284
When I write some files expected to persist 1.502
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.596
# 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" 13.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:39.946
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.161
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 18.429
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.219
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.007
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.357
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 24.037
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.419
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.052
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53.217
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.573
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.122
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.040
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.480
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:18.802
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 22.639
When I enable persistence 18.276
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.106
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.294
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.380
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.265
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.516
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.579
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.192
When I cold reboot the computer 9.224
And the computer reboots Tails 41.937
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.360
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.247
Given I enable persistence 7.674
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.215
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.598
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.529
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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2:42.917
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 8.960
# 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 42.734
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.371
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:23.843
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.039
Tags: @product
52.326
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 9.399
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.539
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.992
And all notifications have disappeared 9.081
When I delete the persistent partition 2.808
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.238
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 8.206
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.056
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.327
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.409
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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48.353
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 8.787
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.096
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.825
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.643
And all notifications have disappeared 8.435
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.463
And all tps features are enabled 1.584
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.931
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 38.196
And I enable persistence 24.285
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.553
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.779
And persistence is enabled 2.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.758
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 7.705
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.545
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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35.443
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 8.477
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 16.597
When I enable persistence 8.258
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.678
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 8.275
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.403
When I try to enable persistence 1.307
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.724
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.490
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.155
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.452
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 8.713
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.085
When I try to enable persistence 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.526
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 13.199
And all notifications have disappeared 9.947
# 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" 0.207
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.553
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.307
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.570
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.945
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 8.756
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.803
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.404
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.318
When I log in to a new session 12.480
And all notifications have disappeared 9.569
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.558
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000