Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6266 06 Apr 2026, 11:26

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 26:41.530 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:42.600
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 1:27.238
And I update APT using apt 8.053
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.447
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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56.833
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 26.480
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.252
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 20.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:10.191
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 22.710
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.372
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 34.646
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.528
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.525
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.063
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.186
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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34.276
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 7.981
And the system is very low on memory 8.599
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.169
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.272
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 2.358
And I free up some memory 0.909
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.794
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.991
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 9.190
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.442
And all tps features are active 1.510
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.098
When I disable the first tps feature 2.614
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.570
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.292
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
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13.691
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 7.801
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 3.022
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.065
When I enable the first tps feature 2.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.090
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 7.402
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.618
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.876
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.465
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 enabled and logged in 7.565
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 21.839
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.254
When I write some files expected to persist 1.169
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.489
# 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" 13.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:36.620
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 7.823
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 18.002
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.730
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.122
And I capture all network traffic 0.033
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 23.084
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.438
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
Tags: @product
1:4.439
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 8.853
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.144
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 24.091
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 30.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.791
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.202
When I enable persistence 31.948
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.096
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.870
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.441
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.300
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.550
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.933
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
When I cold reboot the computer 10.580
And the computer reboots Tails 41.084
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.340
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.228
Given I enable persistence 6.897
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.288
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.665
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
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2:46.313
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 8.754
# 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 52.275
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.472
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.906
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
48.173
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 8.167
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.934
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.797
And all notifications have disappeared 8.574
When I delete the persistent partition 3.032
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.692
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 7.658
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.203
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.438
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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50.354
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 7.842
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.135
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.885
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.652
And all notifications have disappeared 8.826
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.401
And all tps features are enabled 1.429
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.741
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 40.694
And I enable persistence 28.573
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.123
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.696
And persistence is enabled 1.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.998
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 7.044
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.402
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.552
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.983
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 8.770
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 21.226
When I enable persistence 7.216
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.535
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 8.359
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 23.361
When I try to enable persistence 1.311
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.229
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.789
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.181
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.859
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 8.298
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 19.633
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 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.513
And all notifications have disappeared 9.889
# 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" 0.213
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.471
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.276
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.881
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 8.101
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.843
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.357
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.151
When I log in to a new session 12.898
And all notifications have disappeared 9.609
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.934
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000