Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6314 21 Apr 2026, 11:41

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 25:17.944 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.136
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:25.790
And I update APT using apt 7.024
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.327
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.865
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 9.464
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.067
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.415
And persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 13.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.314
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 22.742
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.403
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.694
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.422
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.492
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.211
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.195
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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37.304
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 8.113
And the system is very low on memory 9.237
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.164
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.590
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.116
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.414
And I free up some memory 0.966
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.130
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.469
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 9.266
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.363
And all tps features are active 1.604
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.402
When I disable the first tps feature 2.786
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.827
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.313
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.505
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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14.717
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 7.929
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.127
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I disable the first tps feature 3.155
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 3.148
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.247
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 8.306
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.714
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.004
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:4.444
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 8.799
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 19.728
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.663
When I write some files expected to persist 1.377
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.683
# 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" 13.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:42.764
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 7.840
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 19.330
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 27.092
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.157
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.516
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.436
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.931
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
53.393
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.428
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.147
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.048
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:2.633
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 9.325
When I enable persistence 19.498
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.675
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.129
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.325
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.336
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.537
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.915
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.155
When I cold reboot the computer 10.633
And the computer reboots Tails 39.084
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.308
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
Given I enable persistence 7.543
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.084
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.268
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.440
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:30.419
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 8.691
# 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 37.988
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.701
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.710
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
Tags: @product
52.941
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 8.538
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.552
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.575
And all notifications have disappeared 9.622
When I delete the persistent partition 3.187
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:28.992
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 7.651
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.080
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.259
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.679
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
48.514
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 8.252
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.510
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.727
And all notifications have disappeared 8.569
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.388
And all tps features are enabled 1.572
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.766
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:17.118
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 36.683
And I enable persistence 25.492
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.505
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.638
And persistence is enabled 1.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.911
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 7.623
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.670
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.559
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 8.742
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 22.550
When I enable persistence 8.237
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.637
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 8.716
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.304
When I try to enable persistence 1.368
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.700
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.220
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.581
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.389
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.201
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.549
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 8.663
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.099
When I try to enable persistence 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.454
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 12.972
And all notifications have disappeared 9.313
# 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" 0.286
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.618
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.207
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.462
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.008
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 8.334
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.194
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.386
When I try to enable persistence 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.456
When I log in to a new session 11.480
And all notifications have disappeared 9.772
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.109
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000