Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6386 19 May 2026, 14:04

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 22:5.555 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:37.292
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.896
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.229
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.261
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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32.245
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 9.423
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.656
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.277
And persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:45.553
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 9.566
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.142
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.705
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.102
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.169
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.233
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.241
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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31.112
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 8.043
And the system is very low on memory 3.551
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.297
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.150
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.117
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.513
And I free up some memory 1.199
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.190
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:40.383
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 9.097
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.396
And all tps features are active 1.582
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.226
When I disable the first tps feature 2.538
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.313
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.660
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.291
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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13.488
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 7.859
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 2.631
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.115
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.319
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 7.363
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
And I disable the first tps feature 2.673
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.105
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
43.170
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 7.852
And the network is plugged 0.027
And Tor is ready 13.084
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.292
When I write some files expected to persist 1.638
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.842
# 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" 13.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:51.731
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.210
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.483
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.771
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.316
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.677
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.555
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.150
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.059
Tags: @product
44.246
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.349
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.077
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.294
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.524
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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3:0.526
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 9.357
When I enable persistence 16.329
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.354
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.956
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.442
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.263
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.570
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.693
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.208
When I cold reboot the computer 6.688
And the computer reboots Tails 42.415
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.408
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.210
Given I enable persistence 8.523
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.091
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.258
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.578
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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2:11.259
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 8.623
# 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 27.317
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.374
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.629
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.065
Tags: @product
40.634
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.642
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.564
Then persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.785
And all notifications have disappeared 8.238
When I delete the persistent partition 2.811
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:29.407
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.302
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.672
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.108
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.050
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44.889
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 7.956
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.126
When I try to enable persistence 1.207
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.474
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.405
And all notifications have disappeared 7.934
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.270
And all tps features are enabled 1.169
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.344
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:9.420
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.022
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 33.300
And I enable persistence 21.832
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.463
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.839
And persistence is enabled 1.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.402
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 7.538
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.251
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.089
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 8.583
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.863
When I enable persistence 7.232
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.550
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 8.293
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.149
When I try to enable persistence 1.324
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.764
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.932
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.204
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.411
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 8.116
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.200
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.660
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.029
When I log in to a new session 12.267
And all notifications have disappeared 11.028
# 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" 0.200
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.702
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.292
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.774
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.419
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 8.638
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.149
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.367
When I try to enable persistence 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.200
When I log in to a new session 12.517
And all notifications have disappeared 9.278
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.007
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000