Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6265 05 Apr 2026, 11:29

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 25:56.141 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:44.594
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 1:28.327
And I update APT using apt 8.372
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.434
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.379
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 9.313
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 27.548
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.455
And persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:2.881
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 9.696
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.471
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.795
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.444
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.804
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.257
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.190
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
38.088
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 7.719
And the system is very low on memory 9.501
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.606
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.725
And I free up some memory 0.985
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.791
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.954
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 9.035
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.401
And all tps features are active 1.482
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.470
When I disable the first tps feature 3.478
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.263
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.351
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.218
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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13.555
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 7.837
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I disable the first tps feature 2.785
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.039
When I enable the first tps feature 2.487
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.552
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 8.210
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.132
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 3.092
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.988
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.027
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 8.329
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 19.761
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.256
When I write some files expected to persist 1.224
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.923
# 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" 13.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:33.449
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 8.050
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 19.670
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.501
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.074
And I capture all network traffic 0.018
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 24.306
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.442
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
57.406
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.696
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.132
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 27.989
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:13.249
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 9.452
When I enable persistence 28.310
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.355
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.311
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.347
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.351
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.540
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.251
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
When I cold reboot the computer 10.755
And the computer reboots Tails 41.165
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.367
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
Given I enable persistence 7.002
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.296
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.053
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:31.269
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 8.447
# 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 43.305
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.606
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.170
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
Tags: @product
54.290
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.349
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.505
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.880
And all notifications have disappeared 9.281
When I delete the persistent partition 2.783
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.849
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.436
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.815
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.288
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
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51.482
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 8.559
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.308
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.470
And all notifications have disappeared 8.112
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.316
And all tps features are enabled 1.158
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.440
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 43.630
And I enable persistence 28.436
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.397
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.839
And persistence is enabled 2.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.741
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 7.691
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.502
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.713
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 8.833
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 23.438
When I enable persistence 6.762
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.930
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 8.445
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.777
When I try to enable persistence 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.460
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 1.077
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.227
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.680
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 8.061
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.116
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.342
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 12.873
And all notifications have disappeared 8.993
# 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" 0.162
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.432
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.162
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.421
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.602
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 8.528
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.337
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.524
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.392
When I log in to a new session 11.816
And all notifications have disappeared 10.253
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.805
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000