Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6203 15 Mar 2026, 06:47

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 20:39.032 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.562
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.914
And I update APT using apt 5.496
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.285
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.259
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 8.478
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.602
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.214
And persistence is disabled 0.132
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.434
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 8.459
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.384
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.154
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.447
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.400
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.238
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.177
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
Tags: @product
27.423
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 7.401
And the system is very low on memory 2.828
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.155
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.994
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.084
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.372
And I free up some memory 0.827
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.710
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.988
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 8.400
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 1.138
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.961
When I disable the first tps feature 2.491
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.627
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.828
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
Tags: @product
12.669
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 7.428
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.048
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.448
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.411
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.859
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 enabled and logged in 7.299
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.540
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.858
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.158
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 7.271
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 16.390
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.198
When I write some files expected to persist 1.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.565
# 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" 11.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.001
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2:20.125
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 7.509
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 14.685
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.167
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.103
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.850
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 22.182
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.365
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.078
Tags: @product
37.365
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 8.454
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.064
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.632
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:43.587
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 8.516
When I enable persistence 13.530
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.105
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.406
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.549
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.630
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.155
When I cold reboot the computer 8.724
And the computer reboots Tails 34.300
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.254
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.191
Given I enable persistence 5.987
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.086
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.197
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.263
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:4.443
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 7.806
# 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 24.615
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.058
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.306
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
36.681
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 7.938
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.177
Then persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.187
And all notifications have disappeared 8.373
When I delete the persistent partition 2.593
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:17.041
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 7.216
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.523
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.975
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.025
Tags: @product
39.408
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 7.629
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.838
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.109
And all notifications have disappeared 8.184
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.235
And all tps features are enabled 1.093
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.701
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 29.959
And I enable persistence 19.491
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.063
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.636
And persistence is enabled 1.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.024
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 6.970
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.553
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.290
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 8.440
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.496
When I enable persistence 6.600
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.401
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 7.717
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.637
When I try to enable persistence 1.327
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.057
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.335
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.161
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.476
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 7.448
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.440
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.306
And all notifications have disappeared 10.923
# 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" 0.142
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.487
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.345
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.127
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 7.341
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.580
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.320
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.526
When I log in to a new session 10.179
And all notifications have disappeared 7.907
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.377
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000