Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6253 01 Apr 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 23:28.924 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.643
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 1:26.797
And I update APT using apt 6.490
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.325
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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32.142
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 9.977
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.915
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.326
And persistence is disabled 0.175
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:48.346
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 8.991
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.335
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.828
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.496
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.566
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.766
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.221
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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32.207
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 8.284
And the system is very low on memory 4.427
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.297
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.016
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.174
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.489
And I free up some memory 0.991
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.993
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.438
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 10.696
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.374
And all tps features are active 1.443
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.144
When I disable the first tps feature 2.692
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.388
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.490
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.751
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.621
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 8.199
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.529
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.048
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 8.362
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.109
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.135
And I disable the first tps feature 3.217
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.175
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.226
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 7.734
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 18.241
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.313
When I write some files expected to persist 1.519
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.256
# 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" 14.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:24.152
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 7.630
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 18.727
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.904
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.624
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 23.461
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.424
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
43.918
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.217
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.137
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.331
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:3.775
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.475
When I enable persistence 15.540
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.436
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.368
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.324
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.350
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.810
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.642
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
When I cold reboot the computer 10.719
And the computer reboots Tails 40.754
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.317
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.198
Given I enable persistence 8.636
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.088
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.311
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.462
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:17.020
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 8.801
# 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 26.481
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.053
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:11.287
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
Tags: @product
41.812
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 8.954
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.023
Then persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.500
And all notifications have disappeared 8.634
When I delete the persistent partition 3.166
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:29.499
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 8.700
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.973
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.493
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
45.867
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 9.229
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.090
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.547
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.716
And all notifications have disappeared 8.279
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.656
And all tps features are enabled 1.788
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:10.480
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 33.513
And I enable persistence 21.427
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.999
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.628
And persistence is enabled 1.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.359
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.974
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.543
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.158
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 9.519
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.012
When I enable persistence 8.887
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.781
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 10.287
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.324
When I try to enable persistence 1.345
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.264
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.741
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.156
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.553
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 8.456
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.420
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 12.747
And all notifications have disappeared 9.954
# 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" 0.187
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.561
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.250
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.651
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.870
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 9.934
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.478
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.357
When I try to enable persistence 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.764
When I log in to a new session 12.348
And all notifications have disappeared 8.725
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.192
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000