Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6312 20 Apr 2026, 14:25

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 23:3.425 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.941
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 1:22.944
And I update APT using apt 6.424
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.295
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.992
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.370
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.940
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:45.210
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 8.961
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.390
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.162
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.535
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.507
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.929
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.190
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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30.251
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 8.194
And the system is very low on memory 3.242
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.162
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.501
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.150
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.390
And I free up some memory 0.961
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.139
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:39.377
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 8.461
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.489
And all tps features are active 1.579
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.112
When I disable the first tps feature 2.750
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.166
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.172
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.345
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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13.987
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 8.065
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.768
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.138
When I enable the first tps feature 2.616
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.937
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 enabled and logged in 8.175
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.573
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.977
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:21.361
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 7.872
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 38.357
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.198
When I write some files expected to persist 1.398
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.632
# 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" 12.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.898
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 8.513
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 17.976
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 21.017
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.079
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 22.567
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.377
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
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42.022
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 8.834
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.142
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.345
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:58.069
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 9.309
When I enable persistence 16.491
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.626
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.048
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.443
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.267
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.567
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.065
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
When I cold reboot the computer 9.113
And the computer reboots Tails 39.177
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.299
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.184
Given I enable persistence 8.960
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.085
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.322
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.823
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:14.033
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 8.969
# 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 30.472
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.702
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.053
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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41.807
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 8.784
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.666
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.637
And all notifications have disappeared 9.397
When I delete the persistent partition 2.788
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:25.867
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 8.008
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.451
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.055
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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46.734
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 9.035
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.080
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.576
And all notifications have disappeared 8.288
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.516
And all tps features are enabled 1.635
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:7.123
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 34.395
And I enable persistence 20.386
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.217
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.583
And persistence is enabled 1.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.538
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 7.630
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.294
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.751
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 9.540
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.094
When I enable persistence 7.882
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.977
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 8.626
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.999
When I try to enable persistence 1.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.026
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.426
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.198
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.294
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 8.049
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.679
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.417
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I log in to a new session 12.564
And all notifications have disappeared 9.295
# 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" 0.215
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.519
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.262
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.904
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.246
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 7.799
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.602
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.377
When I try to enable persistence 1.393
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.141
When I log in to a new session 10.340
And all notifications have disappeared 8.460
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.115
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000