Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6308 19 Apr 2026, 11:39

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 25:5.281 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:48.083
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 1:33.125
And I update APT using apt 7.612
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.258
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.379
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 9.359
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.365
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.395
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:10.451
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 9.257
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.619
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 35.911
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.931
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.789
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.584
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.183
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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41.748
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.501
And the system is very low on memory 15.899
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.722
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.268
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.158
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.453
And I free up some memory 0.817
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.877
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:44.025
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 8.653
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.603
And all tps features are active 1.269
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.090
When I disable the first tps feature 2.754
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.161
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.402
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.919
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.037
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13.732
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.107
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.081
When I disable the first tps feature 2.724
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.037
When I enable the first tps feature 2.466
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.279
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 7.548
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.667
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.877
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.406
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 7.509
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 18.228
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.196
When I write some files expected to persist 1.205
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.521
# 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" 12.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:23.709
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 7.650
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 18.607
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.116
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.014
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.604
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.040
And Tor is ready 22.043
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.421
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.059
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51.339
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 8.439
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.148
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.400
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.373
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 9.124
When I enable persistence 21.229
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.343
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.143
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.378
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.315
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.549
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.095
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
When I cold reboot the computer 7.776
And the computer reboots Tails 38.688
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.319
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
Given I enable persistence 6.961
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.245
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.568
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:20.016
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 8.213
# 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 33.263
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.949
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.822
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
51.381
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 7.879
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.927
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.404
And all notifications have disappeared 8.953
When I delete the persistent partition 2.733
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.309
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 8.013
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.424
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.540
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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48.500
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 7.596
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.909
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.241
And all notifications have disappeared 7.853
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.276
And all tps features are enabled 1.219
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.241
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 40.210
And I enable persistence 26.544
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.933
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.700
And persistence is enabled 1.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.040
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 7.343
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.038
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.447
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 8.047
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.755
When I enable persistence 6.898
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.766
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 7.812
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 21.031
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.848
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.369
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.179
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:3.638
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 20.194
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.092
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.814
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 12.609
And all notifications have disappeared 9.154
# 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" 0.177
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.430
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.173
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.666
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.410
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 7.688
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.613
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.392
When I try to enable persistence 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.096
When I log in to a new session 11.457
And all notifications have disappeared 8.793
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.374
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000