Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6280 09 Apr 2026, 00:07

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 25:40.592 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:46.572
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 1:31.618
And I update APT using apt 7.494
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.435
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.664
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 9.949
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 26.589
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.327
And persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 18.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 6.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:50.915
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 9.235
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.435
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.345
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.504
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.215
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.787
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.253
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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42.636
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 7.663
And the system is very low on memory 17.361
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.638
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.927
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.091
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.355
And I free up some memory 0.829
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.703
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.452
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 8.589
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.416
And all tps features are active 1.278
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.276
When I disable the first tps feature 2.645
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 22.745
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.136
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.464
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 7.836
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.732
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.461
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.055
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.257
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 7.503
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 2.599
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.959
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.625
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 7.733
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 19.672
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.266
When I write some files expected to persist 1.367
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 25.909
# 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" 12.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:29.272
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 7.625
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 19.515
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.128
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 22.117
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.679
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 22.545
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.400
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.096
Tags: @product
58.164
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.877
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.112
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 28.161
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
3:9.109
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 31.319
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.484
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.778
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.395
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.314
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.535
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.976
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.185
When I cold reboot the computer 10.607
And the computer reboots Tails 36.231
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.270
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.220
Given I enable persistence 7.179
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.083
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.271
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.060
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:34.196
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 8.494
# 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 42.795
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.454
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.896
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
44.705
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.543
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.337
Then persistence is disabled 0.160
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.751
And all notifications have disappeared 8.743
When I delete the persistent partition 2.768
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.034
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 7.847
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.066
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.112
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.781
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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50.202
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 8.483
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.099
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.317
And all notifications have disappeared 8.272
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.373
And all tps features are enabled 1.104
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.725
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 36.084
And I enable persistence 32.716
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.442
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.749
And persistence is enabled 1.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 13.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.883
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 7.380
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.847
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.968
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 8.369
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.729
When I enable persistence 6.890
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.193
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 8.204
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.991
When I try to enable persistence 1.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.662
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.409
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.217
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.814
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 8.031
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 18.249
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 12.381
And all notifications have disappeared 11.444
# 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" 0.172
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.492
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.218
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.428
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.734
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 8.050
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.355
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.362
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.840
When I log in to a new session 11.798
And all notifications have disappeared 9.545
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.866
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000