Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6328 28 Apr 2026, 11:34

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 23:10.004 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.694
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 1:24.774
And I update APT using apt 6.531
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.249
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.440
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 9.313
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.067
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.183
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 9.498
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.336
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.137
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.316
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.471
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.951
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.161
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.245
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
30.789
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 8.254
And the system is very low on memory 4.210
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.218
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.810
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 2.514
And I free up some memory 1.012
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.583
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.142
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 8.715
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.408
And all tps features are active 1.361
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.246
When I disable the first tps feature 3.113
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.510
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.421
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.249
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.115
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
13.831
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 8.252
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.117
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 2.625
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.585
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 enabled and logged in 7.711
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 2.605
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.064
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.166
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 7.849
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 18.973
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.245
When I write some files expected to persist 1.252
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 24.736
# 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" 13.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.591
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 7.866
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 17.625
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 19.597
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.705
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 22.945
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.473
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
43.144
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.816
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.101
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.377
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:0.918
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.379
When I enable persistence 16.198
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.864
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.227
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.469
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.327
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.619
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.973
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
When I cold reboot the computer 10.688
And the computer reboots Tails 39.529
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.342
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.291
Given I enable persistence 8.035
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.098
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.329
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.197
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:25.625
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 8.625
# 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 29.572
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.829
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:18.839
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 18.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
41.568
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.795
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.433
Then persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.476
And all notifications have disappeared 8.622
When I delete the persistent partition 2.764
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:23.541
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 9.007
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.667
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.530
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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47.108
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 8.873
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.151
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.206
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.809
And all notifications have disappeared 8.039
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.446
And all tps features are enabled 1.201
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:8.734
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 32.847
And I enable persistence 20.191
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.075
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.634
And persistence is enabled 1.986
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.393
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
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 7.745
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.952
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.292
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 9.719
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.070
When I enable persistence 8.345
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.214
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 8.421
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.786
When I try to enable persistence 1.254
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.459
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.555
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.198
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.850
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 8.759
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.589
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.113
When I log in to a new session 13.561
And all notifications have disappeared 9.312
# 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" 0.231
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.118
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.274
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.398
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.185
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 8.344
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.509
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.390
When I try to enable persistence 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.027
When I log in to a new session 13.548
And all notifications have disappeared 8.582
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.582
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 0.643
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000