Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6388 20 May 2026, 11:32

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 22:12.338 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:34.035
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 1:20.074
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.748
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.315
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.125
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 8.976
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.129
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:45.636
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.378
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.305
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.981
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.705
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.823
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.215
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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29.948
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 7.926
And the system is very low on memory 3.570
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.196
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.853
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.226
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.415
And I free up some memory 1.127
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.563
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:36.450
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 9.106
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.356
And all tps features are active 1.413
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.225
When I disable the first tps feature 2.566
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.164
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.316
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.234
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.047
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13.532
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 7.870
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 2.684
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.083
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.504
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.068
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.313
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 7.415
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
And I disable the first tps feature 2.564
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.086
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
46.346
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 7.611
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 14.025
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.219
When I write some files expected to persist 1.397
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.905
# 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" 13.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.512
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:48.080
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 7.593
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 10.400
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.871
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.966
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 12.456
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.369
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.110
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.053
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45.198
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 9.563
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.311
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:58.295
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 9.262
When I enable persistence 14.570
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.324
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.011
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.367
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.260
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.539
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.069
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.162
When I cold reboot the computer 9.456
And the computer reboots Tails 39.908
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.344
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.221
Given I enable persistence 8.512
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.080
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.255
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.802
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.010
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2:28.330
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 9.049
# 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 32.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.288
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.082
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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39.600
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 8.248
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.747
Then persistence is disabled 0.136
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.305
And all notifications have disappeared 8.148
When I delete the persistent partition 2.661
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:28.676
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 7.993
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.202
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.035
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.312
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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45.493
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 8.300
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.179
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.832
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.206
And all notifications have disappeared 8.326
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.409
And all tps features are enabled 1.786
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:8.553
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 32.772
And I enable persistence 21.970
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.468
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.639
And persistence is enabled 1.703
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.720
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.837
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.352
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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27.223
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 8.601
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.667
When I enable persistence 8.012
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.471
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 8.396
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.990
When I try to enable persistence 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.460
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.547
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.076
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.175
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.157
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 8.931
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 12.204
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.084
When I log in to a new session 13.477
And all notifications have disappeared 11.781
# 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" 0.214
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.680
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.228
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.345
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.149
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.487
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.561
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.312
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.860
When I log in to a new session 12.915
And all notifications have disappeared 8.923
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.572
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000