Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6204 15 Mar 2026, 11:13

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 23:47.822 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:10.553
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:54.922
And I update APT using apt 7.988
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.430
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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32.342
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.919
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.287
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.344
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.660
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.411
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 9.197
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.643
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.522
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.565
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.304
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.726
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.256
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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32.384
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 8.827
And the system is very low on memory 3.111
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.179
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.934
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.104
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.493
And I free up some memory 0.899
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.233
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.458
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 8.959
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.437
And all tps features are active 1.714
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.419
When I disable the first tps feature 3.038
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.302
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.288
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.052
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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14.327
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 8.284
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 3.057
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.549
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.768
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 7.600
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.742
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.227
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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56.482
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 7.879
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 18.505
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.255
When I write some files expected to persist 1.298
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.314
# 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" 13.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:34.826
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 8.198
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 19.143
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.805
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.730
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 23.940
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.500
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.036
Tags: @product
43.223
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.667
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.087
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.752
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:2.123
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 9.251
When I enable persistence 16.005
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.809
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.334
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.440
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.374
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.604
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.357
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.218
When I cold reboot the computer 6.910
And the computer reboots Tails 41.499
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.394
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.270
Given I enable persistence 9.178
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.076
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.245
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.953
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:12.419
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 8.458
# 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 25.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.682
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.811
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
41.709
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 9.224
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.854
Then persistence is disabled 0.175
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.629
And all notifications have disappeared 8.661
When I delete the persistent partition 2.734
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:31.116
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 8.350
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.620
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.839
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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43.807
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 8.535
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.604
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.604
And all notifications have disappeared 8.539
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.290
And all tps features are enabled 1.670
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:12.096
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 34.466
And I enable persistence 22.396
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.719
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.582
And persistence is enabled 1.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.649
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 7.247
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.731
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.083
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 9.561
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.157
When I enable persistence 8.010
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.088
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.151
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 8.751
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.857
When I try to enable persistence 1.348
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.232
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.580
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.186
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.228
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 8.197
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.313
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I log in to a new session 14.574
And all notifications have disappeared 9.098
# 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" 0.539
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.772
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.430
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.883
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.653
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 8.467
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.357
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.434
When I try to enable persistence 1.239
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.059
When I log in to a new session 12.357
And all notifications have disappeared 8.400
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.498
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000