Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6317 21 Apr 2026, 19:41

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 22:22.113 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.553
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:24.327
And I update APT using apt 6.984
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.282
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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32.664
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 9.671
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.937
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:48.590
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 8.854
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.400
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.463
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.547
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.258
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.460
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.381
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
Tags: @product
32.392
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 8.771
And the system is very low on memory 4.036
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.773
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.104
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.482
And I free up some memory 0.968
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.590
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.633
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 9.200
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.362
And all tps features are active 1.510
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.583
When I disable the first tps feature 3.082
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.252
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.002
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.247
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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13.879
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 8.256
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.580
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.095
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.613
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.307
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 7.431
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 3.669
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.032
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
51.501
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 7.622
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 19.211
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.263
When I write some files expected to persist 1.406
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.155
# 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" 12.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:21.644
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 8.895
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 19.014
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.227
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.766
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.535
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 23.428
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.496
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.056
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.085
Tags: @product
40.980
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 9.131
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.059
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.045
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:56.160
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 8.903
When I enable persistence 14.309
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.484
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.324
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.463
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.295
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.606
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.617
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
When I cold reboot the computer 10.713
And the computer reboots Tails 38.206
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.342
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.252
Given I enable persistence 8.163
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.208
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.873
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:12.991
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 8.972
# 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 30.446
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.691
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.187
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
38.955
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 8.095
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.584
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.717
And all notifications have disappeared 8.397
When I delete the persistent partition 2.652
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:22.812
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 7.906
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.577
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.037
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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42.826
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.507
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.905
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.200
And all notifications have disappeared 8.072
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.324
And all tps features are enabled 1.236
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:7.268
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
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 32.943
And I enable persistence 20.855
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.056
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.566
And persistence is enabled 1.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.261
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 7.007
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.717
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.487
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 8.674
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.880
When I enable persistence 6.820
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.422
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 8.294
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.626
When I try to enable persistence 1.323
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.073
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.164
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.652
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.217
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.211
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 7.832
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.568
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.032
When I log in to a new session 12.389
And all notifications have disappeared 9.437
# 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" 0.216
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.516
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.171
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.385
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.568
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 8.184
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.740
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.303
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.767
When I log in to a new session 11.294
And all notifications have disappeared 9.500
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.745
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000