Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6301 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 23:9.248 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.833
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.372
And I update APT using apt 6.299
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.261
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.919
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 9.801
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.701
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.773
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 9.360
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.478
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.112
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.983
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.533
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.938
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.072
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.244
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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29.572
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 8.473
And the system is very low on memory 3.483
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.144
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.613
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.115
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.452
And I free up some memory 1.242
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.972
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.214
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 8.390
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
And all tps features are active 1.802
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.288
When I disable the first tps feature 3.101
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.357
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.268
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.333
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.030
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13.766
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 enabled and logged in 8.150
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.609
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 2.483
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.560
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 7.875
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I disable the first tps feature 2.586
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.888
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
50.805
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 7.578
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 16.657
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.304
When I write some files expected to persist 1.612
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.300
# 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" 13.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.560
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 7.762
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 18.077
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.582
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.428
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 42.940
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.377
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.052
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.073
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41.996
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 9.268
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.106
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.496
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:0.131
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 9.475
When I enable persistence 14.819
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.549
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.947
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.418
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.297
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.680
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.097
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.176
When I cold reboot the computer 9.329
And the computer reboots Tails 40.480
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.315
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.262
Given I enable persistence 8.967
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.097
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.379
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.701
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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2:30.314
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 9.421
# 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 28.415
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.662
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:21.101
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.470
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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41.991
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 8.049
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.307
Then persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.405
And all notifications have disappeared 8.905
When I delete the persistent partition 2.791
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:29.007
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 8.776
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.900
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.818
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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46.314
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 8.408
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.634
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.243
And all notifications have disappeared 8.760
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.263
And all tps features are enabled 1.530
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.371
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 31.936
And I enable persistence 21.945
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.013
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.637
And persistence is enabled 1.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.197
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
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 7.840
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.786
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.733
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 8.615
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.585
When I enable persistence 7.594
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.140
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 8.196
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.794
When I try to enable persistence 1.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.549
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.544
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.090
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.246
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.363
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 8.466
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.297
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.307
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 11.319
And all notifications have disappeared 9.341
# 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" 0.222
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.132
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.354
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.552
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.679
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 7.922
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.680
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.351
When I try to enable persistence 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.293
When I log in to a new session 10.971
And all notifications have disappeared 9.425
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.813
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000