Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6311 20 Apr 2026, 13:57

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 22:37.184 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.111
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 1:23.272
And I update APT using apt 6.469
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.329
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.336
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 8.994
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.597
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
And persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.054
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 9.090
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.322
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.282
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.508
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.155
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.290
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.227
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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29.591
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 7.892
And the system is very low on memory 3.838
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.184
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 2.521
And I free up some memory 0.907
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.326
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.466
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 8.744
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.375
And all tps features are active 1.487
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.261
When I disable the first tps feature 2.642
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.213
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.016
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.280
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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14.430
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 8.154
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.569
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.063
When I enable the first tps feature 3.231
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.733
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.958
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.514
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.087
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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56.039
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 8.296
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 17.077
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.250
When I write some files expected to persist 1.386
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.639
# 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" 12.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:29.682
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 7.938
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 17.663
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.120
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.194
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.138
And I capture all network traffic 0.032
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 22.735
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.462
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.075
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
42.693
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.424
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.306
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:57.148
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 8.739
When I enable persistence 14.428
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.317
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.729
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.482
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.349
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.580
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.148
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.146
When I cold reboot the computer 10.811
And the computer reboots Tails 40.678
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.334
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.272
Given I enable persistence 7.415
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.074
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.220
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.238
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
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2:13.394
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 8.436
# 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 28.449
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.321
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.937
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
Tags: @product
41.266
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 9.290
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.216
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.590
And all notifications have disappeared 8.004
When I delete the persistent partition 3.455
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.264
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 8.320
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.253
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.419
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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44.203
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 8.725
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.708
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.969
And all notifications have disappeared 8.407
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.308
And all tps features are enabled 1.502
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.330
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:11.195
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 34.906
And I enable persistence 21.794
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.636
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.726
And persistence is enabled 2.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.154
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 7.598
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.981
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.573
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.680
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 9.374
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.479
When I enable persistence 7.506
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.099
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.520
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 9.093
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.767
When I try to enable persistence 1.486
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.672
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.841
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.236
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.468
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 8.188
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.140
When I try to enable persistence 1.224
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.199
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I log in to a new session 12.282
And all notifications have disappeared 9.029
# 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" 0.236
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.184
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.258
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.518
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.746
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 9.155
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.067
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.354
When I try to enable persistence 1.406
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.049
When I log in to a new session 10.680
And all notifications have disappeared 9.118
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.909
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000