Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6254 01 Apr 2026, 11:22

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 24:22.207 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.488
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 1:25.505
And I update APT using apt 6.598
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.388
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.792
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 9.097
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.114
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.234
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 10.004
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.206
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.414
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.048
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.839
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.217
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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32.296
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 8.415
And the system is very low on memory 3.998
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.289
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.114
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.113
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.441
And I free up some memory 0.801
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.548
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.290
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 8.978
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
And all tps features are active 1.485
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.177
When I disable the first tps feature 3.260
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.435
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.909
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.264
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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14.426
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 8.134
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.117
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.109
When I disable the first tps feature 3.114
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.092
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.579
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.212
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.254
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.621
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.124
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.554
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 8.491
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 17.786
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.342
When I write some files expected to persist 1.453
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.223
# 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" 13.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:57.631
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 9.123
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 19.750
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.135
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.294
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.960
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 42.662
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.449
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
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43.851
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 9.918
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.107
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.235
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:6.714
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 9.579
When I enable persistence 15.234
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.681
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.108
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.388
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.328
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.697
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.087
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
When I cold reboot the computer 9.789
And the computer reboots Tails 41.978
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.379
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.266
Given I enable persistence 9.675
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.107
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.385
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.694
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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2:36.044
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 23.436
# 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 26.979
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.938
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.115
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
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45.386
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 9.171
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.703
Then persistence is disabled 0.135
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.051
And all notifications have disappeared 9.213
When I delete the persistent partition 2.720
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:33.433
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 8.288
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.081
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.020
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.687
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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47.200
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 8.841
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.518
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.552
And all notifications have disappeared 8.205
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.282
And all tps features are enabled 1.215
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:11.019
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 33.551
And I enable persistence 21.836
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.769
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.777
And persistence is enabled 2.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.781
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 7.413
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.622
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.280
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 9.104
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.750
When I enable persistence 7.911
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.967
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 8.502
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.137
When I try to enable persistence 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.937
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.545
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.182
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.872
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 9.050
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.660
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 13.017
And all notifications have disappeared 9.356
# 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" 0.230
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.574
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.253
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.015
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.725
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 8.953
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.487
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.348
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.257
When I log in to a new session 11.634
And all notifications have disappeared 9.649
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.306
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000