Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6287 11 Apr 2026, 11:27

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 21:39.168 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.439
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.069
And I update APT using apt 6.104
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.241
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.972
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 8.736
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.921
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.304
And persistence is disabled 0.114
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.185
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 9.038
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.034
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.482
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.480
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.482
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.193
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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29.056
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 7.742
And the system is very low on memory 3.502
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.843
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 2.499
And I free up some memory 0.761
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.422
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.184
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 8.955
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.296
And all tps features are active 1.168
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.032
When I disable the first tps feature 2.605
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.496
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.711
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.667
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
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13.206
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 7.759
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.087
When I disable the first tps feature 2.574
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.437
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.056
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.497
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 7.311
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 3.091
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.899
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.391
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 7.352
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 16.627
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.320
When I write some files expected to persist 1.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.614
# 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" 12.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:18.795
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 7.545
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 16.966
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.895
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.106
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 22.515
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.409
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.094
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41.585
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.626
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.076
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.245
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.239
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 9.111
When I enable persistence 13.449
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.605
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.683
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.291
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.577
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.523
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
When I cold reboot the computer 10.210
And the computer reboots Tails 37.525
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.275
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.202
Given I enable persistence 7.137
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.337
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.578
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:12.829
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 8.395
# 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 32.099
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.955
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.425
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
41.056
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 8.361
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.448
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.107
And all notifications have disappeared 8.725
When I delete the persistent partition 2.922
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.648
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 7.521
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.742
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.087
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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44.115
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 8.359
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.659
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.553
And all notifications have disappeared 8.459
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.293
And all tps features are enabled 1.391
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.525
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 32.358
And I enable persistence 21.044
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.956
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.580
And persistence is enabled 1.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.994
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.727
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.620
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.344
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 8.227
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.034
When I enable persistence 7.180
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.220
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 7.956
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.937
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.474
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.248
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.186
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.656
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 7.894
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.972
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 11.741
And all notifications have disappeared 9.015
# 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" 0.194
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.120
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.319
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.220
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 8.082
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.346
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.391
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.313
When I log in to a new session 11.403
And all notifications have disappeared 8.871
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.821
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000