Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6300 14 Apr 2026, 19:49

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 27:17.609 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.856
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 1:57.103
And I update APT using apt 8.452
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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50.534
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 9.598
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 25.499
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 15.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:20.216
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 9.779
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.147
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 46.573
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.507
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 18.478
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.099
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.250
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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48.047
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 7.522
And the system is very low on memory 19.867
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 1.653
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.286
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.091
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.394
And I free up some memory 0.890
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.902
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:52.175
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 10.093
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.623
And all tps features are active 1.242
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.981
When I disable the first tps feature 3.186
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.180
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.150
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.489
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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13.144
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 7.391
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.784
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.091
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.505
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.457
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 7.493
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.114
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.866
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.882
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.595
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 20.228
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 20.992
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.338
When I write some files expected to persist 1.750
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.698
# 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" 12.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:32.755
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 7.839
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 18.640
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.418
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.423
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 22.664
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.419
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.062
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
52.075
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 8.660
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 19.186
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:10.935
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 9.511
When I enable persistence 31.293
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.110
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.699
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.343
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.274
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.530
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.923
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.204
When I cold reboot the computer 10.338
And the computer reboots Tails 37.516
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.252
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.207
Given I enable persistence 7.473
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.291
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.744
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:41.531
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 enabled and logged in 8.753
# 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 49.356
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.231
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.945
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
52.100
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 9.025
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.040
Then persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.616
And all notifications have disappeared 9.247
When I delete the persistent partition 2.699
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:36.284
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 7.919
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.083
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.963
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.090
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
51.567
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 8.594
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.105
When I try to enable persistence 1.226
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.594
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.221
And all notifications have disappeared 8.021
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.300
And all tps features are enabled 1.218
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.588
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 41.937
And I enable persistence 28.715
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.638
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.600
And persistence is enabled 1.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.131
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 7.584
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.897
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.671
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 8.451
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 20.682
When I enable persistence 7.412
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.972
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 7.488
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.576
When I try to enable persistence 1.320
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.683
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.141
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.514
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.146
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.175
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.790
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.656
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 14.420
And all notifications have disappeared 8.408
# 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" 0.242
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.413
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.183
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.687
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.790
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 8.664
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.063
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.302
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.854
When I log in to a new session 11.856
And all notifications have disappeared 9.984
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.940
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000