Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6276 08 Apr 2026, 11:16

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 26:9.311 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:53.339
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:38.485
And I update APT using apt 7.667
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.255
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.755
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 9.284
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.240
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
And persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.881
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.884
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.368
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 36.001
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.469
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.718
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.067
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.201
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.927
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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46.682
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 8.086
And the system is very low on memory 13.182
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 5.994
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.347
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.182
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.441
And I free up some memory 0.871
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.001
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.772
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 9.164
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.471
And all tps features are active 1.401
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.268
When I disable the first tps feature 2.630
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.257
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.557
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.628
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
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13.529
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 7.835
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.158
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.716
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.456
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.682
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 7.737
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.808
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.973
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.704
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 20.848
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 21.601
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.279
When I write some files expected to persist 1.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.345
# 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" 13.537
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:24.000
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 8.150
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 18.081
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.111
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.629
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.641
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 23.763
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.069
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1:0.453
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.391
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.149
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.592
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:6.301
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 9.028
When I enable persistence 27.511
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.213
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.338
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.324
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.231
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.537
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.290
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.316
When I cold reboot the computer 7.918
And the computer reboots Tails 38.060
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.301
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.242
Given I enable persistence 7.061
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.241
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.395
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:27.874
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 8.735
# 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 41.646
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.030
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.989
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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1:8.272
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 8.847
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 30.396
Then persistence is disabled 0.139
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.424
And all notifications have disappeared 8.676
When I delete the persistent partition 3.406
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.699
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 7.917
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.674
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.818
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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54.870
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 8.547
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 22.614
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.588
And all notifications have disappeared 8.373
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.322
And all tps features are enabled 1.098
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.449
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 40.154
And I enable persistence 23.497
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.466
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.701
And persistence is enabled 1.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.591
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 7.262
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.820
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.048
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.311
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.256
When I enable persistence 6.995
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.665
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 7.825
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.274
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.340
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.438
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.142
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.071
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 8.100
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 19.598
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.947
And all notifications have disappeared 9.371
# 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" 0.161
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.092
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.166
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.314
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.667
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 8.060
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.342
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.361
When I try to enable persistence 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.467
When I log in to a new session 11.191
And all notifications have disappeared 9.515
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.801
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000