Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6283 09 Apr 2026, 12:20

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 23:1.890 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.607
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.294
And I update APT using apt 6.868
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.310
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.656
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 9.575
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.492
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
And persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.689
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 9.044
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.309
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.711
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.560
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.166
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.545
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.204
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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30.293
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 8.069
And the system is very low on memory 4.123
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.315
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.525
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.112
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.463
And I free up some memory 1.025
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.595
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:38.674
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 8.715
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.328
And all tps features are active 1.383
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.266
When I disable the first tps feature 2.610
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.502
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.332
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.294
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.964
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 enabled and logged in 8.277
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.101
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.639
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.548
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.108
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 8.345
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.111
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I disable the first tps feature 2.568
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.944
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.808
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 enabled and logged in 8.036
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 16.876
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.540
When I write some files expected to persist 1.506
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.278
# 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" 13.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:36.636
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 8.531
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 17.676
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.854
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.103
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 23.485
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.569
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
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44.139
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 9.850
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.093
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.682
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:55.857
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.419
When I enable persistence 15.395
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.631
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.815
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.408
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.305
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.608
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.659
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
When I cold reboot the computer 6.373
And the computer reboots Tails 39.658
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.370
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.249
Given I enable persistence 8.973
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.126
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.308
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.176
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:27.748
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 9.488
# 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 30.021
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.327
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:18.633
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
Tags: @product
39.722
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.408
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.070
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.519
And all notifications have disappeared 8.461
When I delete the persistent partition 2.793
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.100
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 7.963
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.770
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.011
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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46.457
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 9.040
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.086
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.199
And all notifications have disappeared 8.639
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.357
And all tps features are enabled 1.487
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.584
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 32.872
And I enable persistence 20.705
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.807
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.608
And persistence is enabled 1.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.881
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.430
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.841
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.311
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 8.238
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.009
When I enable persistence 6.974
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.088
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 8.508
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.377
When I try to enable persistence 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.693
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.628
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.092
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.174
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.506
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 7.817
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.731
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 12.253
And all notifications have disappeared 9.876
# 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" 0.239
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.536
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.246
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.417
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.053
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 7.948
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.809
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.324
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.855
When I log in to a new session 11.797
And all notifications have disappeared 9.341
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.833
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000