Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6316 21 Apr 2026, 16:17

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 25:18.751 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:42.411
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 1:27.443
And I update APT using apt 7.681
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.343
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.130
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 9.946
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.586
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.335
And persistence is disabled 0.119
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:51.861
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 9.508
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.586
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.195
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.609
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.545
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.116
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.989
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.254
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.042
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35.047
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 7.907
And the system is very low on memory 8.029
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.200
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.103
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.155
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.383
And I free up some memory 0.830
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.939
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:45.288
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 9.145
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.420
And all tps features are active 1.379
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.357
When I disable the first tps feature 3.175
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.455
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.445
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.704
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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13.944
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 8.180
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.140
When I disable the first tps feature 2.682
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.567
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 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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14.770
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.205
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 3.202
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.140
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.300
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 8.010
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 18.894
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.237
When I write some files expected to persist 1.257
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.306
# 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" 13.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:30.677
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 7.985
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 18.448
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.498
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.710
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 23.251
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.419
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.060
Tags: @product
49.899
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 8.913
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.378
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.255
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:7.522
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 9.268
When I enable persistence 22.378
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.914
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.221
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.407
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.370
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.612
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.012
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.196
When I cold reboot the computer 10.482
And the computer reboots Tails 39.534
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.359
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.245
Given I enable persistence 7.706
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.078
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 10.372
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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2:38.413
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 8.698
# 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 39.502
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.389
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:17.928
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
Tags: @product
52.778
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 8.163
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.702
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 10.821
And all notifications have disappeared 9.168
When I delete the persistent partition 3.306
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:33.765
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.242
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.083
And 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 1:15.264
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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49.001
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 8.473
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.440
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.563
And all notifications have disappeared 9.155
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.326
And all tps features are enabled 1.465
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:22.758
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 40.931
And I enable persistence 27.603
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.500
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.628
And persistence is enabled 2.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.654
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 7.926
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.057
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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45.626
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.504
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 27.026
When I enable persistence 7.098
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.412
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.289
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.843
When I try to enable persistence 1.213
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.833
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.232
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.493
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.157
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.857
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 8.442
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.957
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.400
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 12.803
And all notifications have disappeared 9.750
# 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" 0.230
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.479
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.200
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.410
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.627
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 8.096
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 18.928
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.435
When I try to enable persistence 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.863
When I log in to a new session 13.620
And all notifications have disappeared 8.846
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.803
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000