Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6380 15 May 2026, 11:44

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 21:59.160 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.426
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.375
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.616
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.295
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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31.352
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.254
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.263
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.282
And persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:44.994
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.986
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.367
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.435
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.030
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.699
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.196
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.029
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32.202
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.175
And the system is very low on memory 4.189
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.233
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.781
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.125
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.430
And I free up some memory 0.967
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.249
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:50.598
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 21.913
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
And all tps features are active 1.261
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.311
When I disable the first tps feature 3.466
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.473
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.899
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.508
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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13.596
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.106
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.515
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.076
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.068
When I enable the first tps feature 2.520
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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14.663
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.448
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.099
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 3.045
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.954
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.620
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
46.845
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.747
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 14.489
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.210
When I write some files expected to persist 1.335
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.049
# 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? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 12.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:47.085
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.628
And the network is plugged 0.030
And Tor is ready 9.965
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.154
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.039
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.661
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 12.020
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.059
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40.901
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.433
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.102
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.172
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:51.439
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.835
When I enable persistence 13.773
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.892
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.078
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.521
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.568
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.202
When I cold reboot the computer 9.648
And the computer reboots Tails 38.403
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.260
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.210
Given I enable persistence 7.574
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.067
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.227
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.465
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.964
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:14.252
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.610
# 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 28.461
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.527
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.036
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
41.529
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 9.504
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.178
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.893
And all notifications have disappeared 7.916
When I delete the persistent partition 3.500
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:27.125
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.701
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.434
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.611
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.010
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46.211
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.499
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.014
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.978
And all notifications have disappeared 8.004
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.262
And all tps features are enabled 1.034
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:8.005
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 33.092
And I enable persistence 20.923
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.567
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.537
And persistence is enabled 1.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.335
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.357
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.280
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.226
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.107
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.539
When I enable persistence 6.677
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.277
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.712
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.096
When I try to enable persistence 1.262
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.753
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.165
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.914
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.176
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.888
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.045
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.417
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.160
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.909
And all notifications have disappeared 10.366
# 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" 0.128
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.418
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.159
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.283
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.199
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 7.880
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.213
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.324
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.824
When I log in to a new session 12.508
And all notifications have disappeared 8.990
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.411
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000