Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6296 14 Apr 2026, 13:58

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 25:34.344 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:50.181
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:35.065
And I update APT using apt 7.115
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.762
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.639
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.023
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.647
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
And persistence is disabled 0.149
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 11.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:58.421
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 9.625
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.552
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.989
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.586
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.097
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.163
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.244
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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35.441
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 8.121
And the system is very low on memory 9.276
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.147
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.978
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.459
And I free up some memory 0.838
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.443
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:54.457
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 9.149
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.464
And all tps features are active 1.432
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.515
When I disable the first tps feature 3.142
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.271
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.482
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.792
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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14.512
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.026
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.875
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 3.117
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.514
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 7.602
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.662
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.044
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.547
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 8.332
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 21.684
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.263
When I write some files expected to persist 1.399
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.067
# 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" 13.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.141
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 enabled and logged in 8.218
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 17.986
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.955
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.145
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 24.121
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.349
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
49.768
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 9.170
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.095
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.542
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:9.934
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.306
When I enable persistence 25.952
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.596
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.022
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.371
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.302
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.672
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.440
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.254
When I cold reboot the computer 7.667
And the computer reboots Tails 39.544
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.309
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.321
Given I enable persistence 8.589
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.087
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.269
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.054
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:38.567
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 8.857
# 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 42.645
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.925
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.969
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 29.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
55.911
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 9.147
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.422
Then persistence is disabled 0.179
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.475
And all notifications have disappeared 9.591
When I delete the persistent partition 2.753
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.384
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 8.081
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.056
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.924
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
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48.686
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.981
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.784
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.653
And all notifications have disappeared 8.672
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.306
And all tps features are enabled 1.491
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:20.892
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 38.714
And I enable persistence 28.700
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.728
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.869
And persistence is enabled 1.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.653
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 8.032
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.971
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.949
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 8.973
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 16.112
When I enable persistence 6.815
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.498
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 8.920
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.323
When I try to enable persistence 1.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.571
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.827
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.084
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.183
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.829
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 7.756
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.123
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 13.522
And all notifications have disappeared 10.054
# 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" 0.265
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.405
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.371
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.961
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.411
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 8.279
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.208
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.359
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.766
When I log in to a new session 11.074
And all notifications have disappeared 9.285
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.418
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000