Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6246 30 Mar 2026, 07:31

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 26:47.507 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:42.477
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 1:25.399
And I update APT using apt 8.350
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 7.211
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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57.910
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 9.138
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.291
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.272
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 28.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:11.955
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 9.847
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.542
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 40.965
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.457
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.803
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.986
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.180
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
Tags: @product
41.450
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 7.760
And the system is very low on memory 15.598
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.971
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.873
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 2.375
And I free up some memory 0.876
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.840
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.622
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 8.933
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.512
And all tps features are active 1.257
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.897
When I disable the first tps feature 2.690
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.454
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.342
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.482
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
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13.606
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 7.741
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.159
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I disable the first tps feature 2.853
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.475
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.206
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 7.470
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 2.559
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.953
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:1.926
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 7.469
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 20.920
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.227
When I write some files expected to persist 1.290
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.411
# 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" 12.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:29.157
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 7.658
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 18.627
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.460
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.733
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 22.964
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.364
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.091
Tags: @product
1:5.369
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 8.705
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.242
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 27.935
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 27.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:14.602
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 9.192
When I enable persistence 37.051
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.497
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.923
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.357
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.294
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.594
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.619
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
When I cold reboot the computer 7.847
And the computer reboots Tails 38.047
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.295
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.211
Given I enable persistence 7.629
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.124
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.300
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.262
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:35.905
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 8.600
# 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 44.978
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.240
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.885
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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1:4.168
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 8.532
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 23.752
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 19.776
And all notifications have disappeared 8.848
When I delete the persistent partition 2.721
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.471
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 8.193
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.046
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 1:12.504
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
50.872
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 7.990
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.372
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.361
And all notifications have disappeared 8.214
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.416
And all tps features are enabled 1.156
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.052
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 41.788
And I enable persistence 24.777
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.151
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.612
And persistence is enabled 1.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.267
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 7.208
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.500
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.549
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.477
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.212
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.227
When I enable persistence 7.290
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.169
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 7.920
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 26.600
When I try to enable persistence 1.301
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.386
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.382
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.217
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.065
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 8.124
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 19.493
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I log in to a new session 12.990
And all notifications have disappeared 9.262
# 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" 0.140
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.415
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.175
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.230
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.771
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 7.954
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 19.270
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.425
When I try to enable persistence 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.067
When I log in to a new session 13.013
And all notifications have disappeared 8.521
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.315
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000