Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6313 21 Apr 2026, 07:22

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 21:44.192 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:33.267
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 1:20.107
And I update APT using apt 5.794
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.343
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.755
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 22.226
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.006
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
And persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.077
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 8.290
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.346
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.157
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.299
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.491
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.872
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.395
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.172
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
Tags: @product
29.787
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 7.656
And the system is very low on memory 4.193
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.196
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.679
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.145
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.384
And I free up some memory 0.922
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.513
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:33.251
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 8.536
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.300
And all tps features are active 1.256
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.894
When I disable the first tps feature 2.617
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.102
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.701
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.712
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
13.127
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 7.583
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 2.538
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.577
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.594
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.255
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 7.311
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
And I disable the first tps feature 2.794
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.942
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.723
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 7.493
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 17.083
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.389
When I write some files expected to persist 1.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.801
# 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" 12.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.576
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:16.768
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 7.222
And the network is plugged 0.013
And Tor is ready 17.002
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.044
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.128
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 22.545
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.447
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.052
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.038
Tags: @product
40.813
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 8.788
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.095
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.479
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.640
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 8.625
When I enable persistence 13.797
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.368
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.003
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.429
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.305
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.570
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.789
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.196
When I cold reboot the computer 10.499
And the computer reboots Tails 37.189
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.276
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.216
Given I enable persistence 7.300
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.258
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.596
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:13.114
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 8.422
# 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 29.577
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.768
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.581
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
39.260
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 8.441
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.734
Then persistence is disabled 0.153
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.928
And all notifications have disappeared 7.986
When I delete the persistent partition 2.712
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:19.751
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 7.994
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.913
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.484
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
43.555
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 8.198
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.893
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.363
And all notifications have disappeared 7.761
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.742
And all tps features are enabled 1.124
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.967
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 31.168
And I enable persistence 20.164
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.345
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.640
And persistence is enabled 1.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.847
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 7.096
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.191
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.002
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 8.121
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.315
When I enable persistence 6.742
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.244
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 8.386
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.027
When I try to enable persistence 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.557
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.540
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.102
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.153
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.006
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 7.900
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.085
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.204
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I log in to a new session 11.368
And all notifications have disappeared 9.287
# 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" 0.184
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.100
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.255
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.469
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.972
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 7.853
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.595
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.348
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.659
When I log in to a new session 11.638
And all notifications have disappeared 8.427
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.429
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000