Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6294 14 Apr 2026, 12:40

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 26:44.906 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:44.161
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:28.024
And I update APT using apt 8.924
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.266
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.905
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.335
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.742
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.368
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 14.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:9.285
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 23.705
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.354
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.148
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.513
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.554
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.824
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.955
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.181
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
35.707
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 7.547
And the system is very low on memory 7.792
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.222
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.000
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.100
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.368
And I free up some memory 0.975
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.108
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.808
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.680
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 10.307
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.459
And all tps features are active 1.610
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.413
When I disable the first tps feature 3.179
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.434
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.384
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.625
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.734
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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14.853
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 8.769
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.128
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 3.133
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.051
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.892
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 8.340
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.144
And I disable the first tps feature 3.244
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.045
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:2.590
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 7.667
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 19.727
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.259
When I write some files expected to persist 1.222
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.801
# 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" 13.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:38.868
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.780
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 19.627
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.201
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.933
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.970
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 22.736
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.386
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.074
Tags: @product
56.598
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 9.563
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.159
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 22.530
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:19.724
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 9.437
When I enable persistence 30.498
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.269
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.433
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.431
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.327
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.698
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.154
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.233
When I cold reboot the computer 11.842
And the computer reboots Tails 41.024
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.305
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.229
Given I enable persistence 7.398
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.087
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.277
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.923
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
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3:4.587
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 25.233
# 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 39.595
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.403
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:21.633
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 27.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
56.633
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 10.157
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.691
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.927
And all notifications have disappeared 9.578
When I delete the persistent partition 2.767
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.759
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 9.279
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.986
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.179
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.568
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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52.417
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 8.625
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.177
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.393
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.811
And all notifications have disappeared 8.297
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.786
And all tps features are enabled 1.682
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:21.272
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 40.596
And I enable persistence 26.234
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.761
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.720
And persistence is enabled 1.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.997
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 7.709
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.701
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.881
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.270
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 15.109
When I enable persistence 8.925
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.763
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 8.100
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.144
When I try to enable persistence 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.859
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.705
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.194
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.277
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 8.488
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.067
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 13.004
And all notifications have disappeared 9.936
# 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" 0.204
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.675
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.214
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.325
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.045
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 8.357
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 19.378
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.506
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.676
When I log in to a new session 13.439
And all notifications have disappeared 8.727
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.826
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000