Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6387 19 May 2026, 18:39

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 21:42.634 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.180
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:21.846
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.111
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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31.808
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 9.308
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.154
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.325
And persistence is disabled 0.186
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.121
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 8.972
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.314
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.382
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.464
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.503
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.285
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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31.603
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.177
And the system is very low on memory 4.201
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.166
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.685
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.094
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.388
And I free up some memory 0.828
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.995
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:35.935
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.387
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
And all tps features are active 1.732
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.272
When I disable the first tps feature 3.151
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.248
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.551
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.849
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.053
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13.883
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 enabled and logged in 8.081
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I disable the first tps feature 2.587
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.054
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.733
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.640
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 7.921
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.540
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.993
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
45.891
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.815
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 13.437
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.191
When I write some files expected to persist 1.147
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.145
# 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" 13.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:49.829
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 8.006
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.417
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.809
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.832
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 13.000
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.364
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.075
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41.274
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.054
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.088
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.581
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:54.255
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 9.298
When I enable persistence 14.564
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.117
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.137
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.347
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.261
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.614
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.865
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
When I cold reboot the computer 6.386
And the computer reboots Tails 39.344
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.290
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.194
Given I enable persistence 7.202
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.213
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.981
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:19.485
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 8.658
# 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 29.415
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.992
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:8.145
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
39.706
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 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 8.389
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.692
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.486
And all notifications have disappeared 7.886
When I delete the persistent partition 2.793
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:26.956
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 8.250
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.098
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.873
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.436
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.126
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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46.561
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 8.614
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.437
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.556
And all notifications have disappeared 7.812
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.343
And all tps features are enabled 1.281
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:6.866
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 32.197
And I enable persistence 21.369
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.000
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.570
And persistence is enabled 1.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
22.517
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.002
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 7.208
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.733
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.091
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 9.089
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.448
When I enable persistence 8.382
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.705
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 8.121
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.741
When I try to enable persistence 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.599
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.462
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.193
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.978
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 7.886
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.210
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.252
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.173
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 12.884
And all notifications have disappeared 8.444
# 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" 0.288
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.104
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.245
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.353
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.339
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 8.482
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.865
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.341
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.490
When I log in to a new session 10.445
And all notifications have disappeared 9.506
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.066
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000