Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6309 20 Apr 2026, 11:25

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 22:17.661 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.932
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 1:21.255
And I update APT using apt 6.553
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.267
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.965
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 8.987
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.759
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.275
And persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.787
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 8.852
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.323
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.512
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.501
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.574
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.655
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
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30.941
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 7.834
And the system is very low on memory 4.134
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.203
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.747
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.107
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.456
And I free up some memory 0.852
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.082
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.522
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:28.948
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 8.244
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.349
And all tps features are active 1.545
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.369
When I disable the first tps feature 2.673
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.185
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.904
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.451
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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13.282
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 7.787
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.091
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.575
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.317
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 7.659
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 2.571
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.910
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.018
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
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 39.482
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.191
When I write some files expected to persist 1.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.078
# 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" 12.510
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:11.875
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 8.088
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 18.603
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.178
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.891
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.055
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 22.458
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.358
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
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38.685
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.082
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.467
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.889
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 8.878
When I enable persistence 16.002
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.359
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.672
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.376
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.296
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.558
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.255
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
When I cold reboot the computer 6.395
And the computer reboots Tails 38.424
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.387
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.300
Given I enable persistence 8.684
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.098
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.310
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.497
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:14.004
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 8.970
# 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 28.350
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.959
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.187
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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40.179
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 8.544
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.974
Then persistence is disabled 0.168
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.795
And all notifications have disappeared 8.663
When I delete the persistent partition 2.670
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.462
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 8.437
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.616
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.017
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
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43.284
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.055
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.547
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.812
And all notifications have disappeared 8.631
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.308
And all tps features are enabled 1.472
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.992
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 31.246
And I enable persistence 19.943
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.541
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.655
And persistence is enabled 1.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.304
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 7.352
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.381
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.998
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 9.066
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.308
When I enable persistence 7.503
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.387
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 8.285
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.205
When I try to enable persistence 1.338
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.500
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.571
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.151
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.748
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 7.651
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.408
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.861
And all notifications have disappeared 9.507
# 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 0.647
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.261
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.565
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.655
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 8.652
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.285
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.414
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.343
When I log in to a new session 11.708
And all notifications have disappeared 9.433
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.637
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000