Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6310 20 Apr 2026, 13:58

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 25:15.013 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.726
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.466
And I update APT using apt 7.045
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.261
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.435
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.294
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.662
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.328
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 20.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:0.142
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.862
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.541
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.231
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.577
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.469
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.601
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.591
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.229
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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36.156
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 7.725
And the system is very low on memory 10.493
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.383
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.154
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.098
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.397
And I free up some memory 0.807
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.028
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.939
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 8.781
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.436
And all tps features are active 1.273
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.396
When I disable the first tps feature 3.159
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.338
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.842
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.504
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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13.508
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 7.804
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 2.529
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.058
When I enable the first tps feature 2.688
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.268
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 7.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
And I disable the first tps feature 2.519
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.943
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.932
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 7.512
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 19.934
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.293
When I write some files expected to persist 1.386
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.327
# 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" 12.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:28.923
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 7.911
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 18.341
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.163
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.486
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.182
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 23.086
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.489
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.098
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55.412
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 8.985
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.123
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 25.590
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:11.953
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 9.312
When I enable persistence 29.117
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.262
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.935
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.400
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.276
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.744
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.029
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.187
When I cold reboot the computer 10.505
And the computer reboots Tails 39.480
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.307
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.294
Given I enable persistence 8.528
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.104
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.235
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.074
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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2:32.436
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 9.087
# 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 37.581
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.187
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:9.592
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
52.929
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 8.718
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.116
Then persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.777
And all notifications have disappeared 9.148
When I delete the persistent partition 2.741
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.112
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 8.575
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.004
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.221
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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54.060
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 8.756
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.933
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.549
And all notifications have disappeared 8.416
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.376
And all tps features are enabled 1.460
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:13.947
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 38.122
And I enable persistence 21.623
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.747
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.700
And persistence is enabled 1.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.326
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
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 7.492
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.201
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.331
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 8.900
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 23.936
When I enable persistence 7.493
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.108
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.685
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 8.255
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.116
When I try to enable persistence 1.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.885
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.595
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.216
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.188
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 7.687
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.493
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 12.313
And all notifications have disappeared 11.788
# 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" 0.218
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.473
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.336
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.473
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.595
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 8.158
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.175
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.329
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.861
When I log in to a new session 11.826
And all notifications have disappeared 8.838
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.375
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000