Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6297 14 Apr 2026, 19:32

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 22:45.424 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.102
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.715
And I update APT using apt 6.132
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.339
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.448
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 9.224
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.869
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.422
And persistence is disabled 0.152
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:47.104
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 8.950
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.435
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.138
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.471
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.723
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.041
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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32.556
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 8.259
And the system is very low on memory 4.196
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.185
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.035
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 2.541
And I free up some memory 0.950
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.757
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.636
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 9.082
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.334
And all tps features are active 1.312
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.241
When I disable the first tps feature 3.191
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.398
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.789
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.031
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.254
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
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14.209
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 7.864
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 2.739
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.091
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 3.129
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.500
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 7.790
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.584
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.925
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.052
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 8.447
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 19.866
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.260
When I write some files expected to persist 1.358
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.940
# 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" 13.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:31.188
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 8.077
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 17.089
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.169
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.362
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.489
And I capture all network traffic 0.035
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 22.966
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.511
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
42.252
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.911
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.078
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.337
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.350
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.875
When I enable persistence 14.933
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.468
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.153
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.438
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.266
# 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 25.832
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
When I cold reboot the computer 9.518
And the computer reboots Tails 40.124
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.379
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.276
Given I enable persistence 8.529
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.090
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.339
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.186
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:15.420
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 8.534
# 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 29.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.355
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.060
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.024
Tags: @product
41.357
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.342
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.372
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.699
And all notifications have disappeared 8.878
When I delete the persistent partition 3.417
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.020
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 7.916
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.983
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.718
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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46.416
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 8.436
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.869
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.210
And all notifications have disappeared 8.347
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.435
And all tps features are enabled 1.600
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.356
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 32.064
And I enable persistence 20.382
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.513
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.656
And persistence is enabled 1.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.239
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.548
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.124
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.853
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 8.734
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.499
When I enable persistence 7.464
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.380
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.449
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.669
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.890
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.549
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.167
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.685
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 7.567
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.169
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 13.204
And all notifications have disappeared 9.104
# 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" 0.279
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.123
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.237
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.544
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.290
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 8.050
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.829
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.368
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.993
When I log in to a new session 11.544
And all notifications have disappeared 8.321
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.964
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000