Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6200 13 Mar 2026, 07:18

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 27:0.453 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.812
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.563
And I update APT using apt 6.321
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.371
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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50.605
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 8.664
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.180
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 27.365
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:28.068
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 8.748
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.153
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.138
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 55.190
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.403
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.513
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.715
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.166
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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43.748
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.359
And the system is very low on memory 18.631
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.840
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.899
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.091
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.374
And I free up some memory 0.853
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.639
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.082
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 8.734
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.586
And all tps features are active 1.417
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.927
When I disable the first tps feature 2.513
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.160
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.753
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.874
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
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13.151
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 7.417
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I disable the first tps feature 2.865
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.425
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.440
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 7.289
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 3.069
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.892
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.853
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 7.279
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 18.825
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.200
When I write some files expected to persist 1.189
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.907
# 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" 12.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:20.102
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 7.205
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.742
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.156
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.340
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.710
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.363
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.365
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.060
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
57.345
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.755
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.134
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.003
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 32.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:27.198
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 21.539
When I enable persistence 37.963
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.980
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.380
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.278
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.295
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.501
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.236
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
When I cold reboot the computer 8.918
And the computer reboots Tails 38.982
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.389
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.209
Given I enable persistence 6.854
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.218
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.079
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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2:33.635
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 8.300
# 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 42.519
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.250
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.524
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
50.523
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 7.849
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.111
Then persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 17.510
And all notifications have disappeared 8.979
When I delete the persistent partition 2.647
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.188
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 7.616
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.059
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.953
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.323
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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49.408
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 7.700
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.136
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.914
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.258
And all notifications have disappeared 8.092
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.238
And all tps features are enabled 0.911
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.251
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 46.078
And I enable persistence 29.522
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.490
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.544
And persistence is enabled 1.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.757
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 7.219
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.055
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.381
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 8.474
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 28.057
When I enable persistence 7.182
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.859
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 7.969
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 23.571
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.263
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.440
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.182
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:4.613
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 7.648
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 28.169
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 12.645
And all notifications have disappeared 9.656
# 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" 0.129
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.393
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.222
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.312
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.425
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 8.108
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.098
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.341
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.659
When I log in to a new session 12.093
And all notifications have disappeared 9.399
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.771
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000