Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6299 14 Apr 2026, 19:35

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 22:53.760 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.589
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.393
And I update APT using apt 6.881
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.331
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.458
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 9.585
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.582
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
And persistence is disabled 0.133
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.039
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 9.538
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.394
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.167
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.899
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.538
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.740
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.502
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.217
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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33.022
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 logged in 8.750
And the system is very low on memory 3.517
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.183
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.749
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.132
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.433
And I free up some memory 0.920
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.760
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.859
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 8.459
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 1.673
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.376
When I disable the first tps feature 3.182
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.433
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.935
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.121
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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14.254
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 7.998
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.638
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 3.182
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.779
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 7.946
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I disable the first tps feature 2.626
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.000
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.026
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 8.010
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 18.628
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.395
When I write some files expected to persist 1.347
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.360
# 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" 13.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:23.228
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.869
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 17.425
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.647
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.720
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 22.786
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.389
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.109
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40.044
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 8.846
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.070
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.550
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:0.427
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 8.731
When I enable persistence 14.933
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.604
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.896
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.417
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.227
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 6.285
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.722
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.182
When I cold reboot the computer 9.055
And the computer reboots Tails 40.237
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.259
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.172
Given I enable persistence 7.497
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.127
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.218
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.673
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
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2:17.941
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 8.262
# 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 30.832
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.653
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.381
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
41.258
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 8.617
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.722
Then persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.496
And all notifications have disappeared 8.698
When I delete the persistent partition 3.202
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.394
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.489
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 8.760
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.083
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.345
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.065
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
47.819
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.670
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.768
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.385
And all notifications have disappeared 8.632
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.933
And all tps features are enabled 1.615
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.863
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 33.251
And I enable persistence 20.305
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.106
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.530
And persistence is enabled 1.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.327
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 7.545
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.997
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.271
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 8.964
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.127
When I enable persistence 9.832
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.137
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 8.148
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.671
When I try to enable persistence 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.817
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.582
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.166
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.514
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 8.604
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.213
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 13.200
And all notifications have disappeared 9.153
# 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" 0.211
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.119
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.225
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.433
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.407
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 8.615
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.414
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.410
When I try to enable persistence 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.503
When I log in to a new session 12.325
And all notifications have disappeared 8.600
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.481
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000