Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6289 12 Apr 2026, 11:33

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 22:36.598 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.098
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.367
And I update APT using apt 7.454
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.309
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.153
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 9.571
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.651
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.346
And persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.945
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 8.746
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.457
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.571
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.430
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.192
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.201
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.197
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
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31.267
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 7.675
And the system is very low on memory 4.641
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.219
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.805
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.102
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.459
And I free up some memory 0.826
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.017
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.515
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 8.652
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
And all tps features are active 1.326
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.198
When I disable the first tps feature 2.702
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.572
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.309
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.069
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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13.745
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 8.249
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.579
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.086
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.069
When I enable the first tps feature 2.458
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.540
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 8.284
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.119
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 3.045
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.967
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.706
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 7.768
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 19.026
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.204
When I write some files expected to persist 1.386
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.438
# 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" 12.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:24.886
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 8.288
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 17.273
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.225
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.491
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.254
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 22.552
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.444
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.070
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41.236
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 9.302
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.074
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.563
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.295
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:56.198
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 9.129
When I enable persistence 14.492
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.687
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.897
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.446
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.562
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.838
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 9.166
And the computer reboots Tails 39.348
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.341
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.273
Given I enable persistence 8.083
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.142
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.343
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.885
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:12.433
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 9.070
# 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 26.826
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.197
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.604
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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41.241
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 9.331
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.529
Then persistence is disabled 0.157
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.567
And all notifications have disappeared 8.454
When I delete the persistent partition 2.783
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.886
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 8.359
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.457
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.765
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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45.148
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.762
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.157
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.817
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.881
And all notifications have disappeared 8.705
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.267
And all tps features are enabled 1.334
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:5.338
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 31.798
And I enable persistence 21.042
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.159
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.720
And persistence is enabled 1.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.601
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 7.781
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.115
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.571
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 8.418
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.466
When I enable persistence 7.738
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.082
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.007
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 8.262
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.698
When I try to enable persistence 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.425
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.647
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.097
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.170
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.568
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 8.818
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.071
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.091
When I log in to a new session 12.758
And all notifications have disappeared 9.458
# 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" 0.291
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.726
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.302
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.673
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.507
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 8.334
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.193
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.572
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.815
When I log in to a new session 11.804
And all notifications have disappeared 9.910
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.830
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000