Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6252 01 Apr 2026, 11:14

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 24:3.286 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:11.454
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:56.541
And I update APT using apt 7.664
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.295
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.493
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 9.245
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.433
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.566
And persistence is disabled 0.192
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:46.791
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 9.520
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.446
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.116
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.604
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.523
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.196
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.140
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.193
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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33.119
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 8.302
And the system is very low on memory 3.779
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.256
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.820
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.105
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.424
And I free up some memory 0.904
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.997
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.528
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.807
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 9.099
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.477
And all tps features are active 1.572
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.908
When I disable the first tps feature 3.083
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.660
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.787
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.881
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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14.518
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 8.108
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.114
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.144
When I disable the first tps feature 3.110
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.067
When I enable the first tps feature 2.625
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.108
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.424
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 8.211
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I disable the first tps feature 2.644
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.352
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:6.543
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 8.223
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 18.105
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.218
When I write some files expected to persist 1.303
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.608
# 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" 14.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.984
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 8.180
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 18.172
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.389
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.547
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.796
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.502
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.076
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44.009
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 9.263
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.565
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:0.299
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 9.276
When I enable persistence 16.400
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.553
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.347
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.428
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.347
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.605
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.018
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 6.830
And the computer reboots Tails 40.809
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.383
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.260
Given I enable persistence 8.834
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.340
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.434
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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2:15.053
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.809
# 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 25.262
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.760
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:11.013
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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42.045
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 8.434
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.595
Then persistence is disabled 0.134
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.051
And all notifications have disappeared 8.583
When I delete the persistent partition 2.841
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.694
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 8.906
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.296
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.120
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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48.224
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 8.521
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.121
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.358
And all notifications have disappeared 8.460
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.087
And all tps features are enabled 1.774
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.827
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 34.291
And I enable persistence 25.966
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.005
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.783
And persistence is enabled 2.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.468
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.042
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.713
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.456
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 7.985
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.975
When I enable persistence 8.362
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.478
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 9.095
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.095
When I try to enable persistence 1.348
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.334
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.866
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.243
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.379
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 8.286
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.131
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.372
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.331
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I log in to a new session 12.710
And all notifications have disappeared 9.320
# 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" 0.252
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.594
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.278
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.850
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.210
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 9.347
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.359
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.393
When I try to enable persistence 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.650
When I log in to a new session 13.176
And all notifications have disappeared 9.612
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.377
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000