Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6278 08 Apr 2026, 18:17

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 26:5.967 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:18.072
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 2:1.860
And I update APT using apt 7.728
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.465
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 2.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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46.392
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 9.538
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.101
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
And persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 16.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:7.105
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.323
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.505
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 32.463
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.530
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.022
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.882
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.217
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
Tags: @product
40.413
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 7.770
And the system is very low on memory 13.028
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.020
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.930
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.093
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.427
And I free up some memory 0.890
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.742
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.106
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 22.160
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.331
And all tps features are active 1.366
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.431
When I disable the first tps feature 2.771
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.361
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.709
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.719
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
13.988
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.666
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 2.665
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.101
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.157
When I enable the first tps feature 3.041
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.052
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.045
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 8.037
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I disable the first tps feature 2.871
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.908
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.260
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 8.301
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 21.018
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.291
When I write some files expected to persist 1.349
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.772
# 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 0.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:25.491
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 7.942
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 18.620
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.187
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.149
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.130
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 22.848
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.358
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.061
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
49.417
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 8.660
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.136
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.006
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:4.186
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 9.301
When I enable persistence 21.106
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.376
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.030
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.329
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.246
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.645
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.718
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
When I cold reboot the computer 8.343
And the computer reboots Tails 42.579
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.316
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.267
Given I enable persistence 8.075
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.207
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.222
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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2:30.857
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.820
# 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 32.937
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.138
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:13.141
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product
49.282
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 8.980
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.096
Then persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.692
And all notifications have disappeared 9.018
When I delete the persistent partition 3.000
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:29.911
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 8.114
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.096
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.640
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.826
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.233
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
54.547
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 9.006
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.038
When I try to enable persistence 1.150
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.351
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.286
And all notifications have disappeared 8.601
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.362
And all tps features are enabled 1.512
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:26.427
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 44.734
And I enable persistence 27.847
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.157
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.583
And persistence is enabled 2.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.751
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 7.294
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.775
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.009
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 8.996
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.243
When I enable persistence 6.877
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.562
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 8.562
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.959
When I try to enable persistence 1.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.819
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.469
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.139
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.426
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.243
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.398
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.035
When I log in to a new session 12.712
And all notifications have disappeared 10.039
# 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" 0.302
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.588
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.264
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.390
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.712
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 8.035
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.105
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.323
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.600
When I log in to a new session 13.071
And all notifications have disappeared 8.743
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.597
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000