Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6284 09 Apr 2026, 14:22

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 25:43.070 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.772
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 1:26.611
And I update APT using apt 6.759
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.247
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.125
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 9.096
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.227
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.266
And persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 18.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:58.490
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 11.087
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.676
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.701
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.449
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.947
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.229
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.216
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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40.118
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 logged in 7.388
And the system is very low on memory 13.421
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.245
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.331
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.092
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.533
And I free up some memory 1.007
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.038
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.236
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 10.579
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.566
And all tps features are active 1.366
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.213
When I disable the first tps feature 3.147
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.184
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.839
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.385
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 7.864
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.533
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.052
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.588
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.873
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 7.994
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 2.776
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.889
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.254
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 7.520
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 17.592
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.250
When I write some files expected to persist 1.546
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.866
# 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" 12.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:35.174
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 7.664
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 18.288
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.179
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.806
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.334
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 22.239
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.430
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
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58.224
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 8.694
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.151
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 23.116
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:11.366
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 8.753
When I enable persistence 26.853
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.893
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.789
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.390
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.333
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.541
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.146
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 10.377
And the computer reboots Tails 42.682
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.350
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
Given I enable persistence 7.385
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.273
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.944
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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2:30.517
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 8.694
# 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 43.224
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.443
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.722
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
49.724
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 8.062
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.003
Then persistence is disabled 0.140
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.256
And all notifications have disappeared 9.055
When I delete the persistent partition 2.803
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.159
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 8.030
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.088
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.073
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.751
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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50.907
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 8.287
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.593
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.561
And all notifications have disappeared 8.281
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.265
And all tps features are enabled 1.476
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.384
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 41.747
And I enable persistence 25.652
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.806
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.607
And persistence is enabled 1.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.858
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 7.151
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.110
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.894
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 8.820
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 21.062
When I enable persistence 7.203
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.637
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 7.870
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 19.219
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.513
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.366
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.187
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.216
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 7.421
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.223
When I try to enable persistence 1.386
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.576
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.185
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 13.579
And all notifications have disappeared 8.323
# 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" 0.261
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.648
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.283
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.410
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.748
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 8.206
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.277
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.303
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.100
When I log in to a new session 13.311
And all notifications have disappeared 8.660
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.874
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000