Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6394 21 May 2026, 07:31

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 20:43.801 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.042
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 1:18.189
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.322
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.397
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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28.934
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 8.692
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.452
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.251
And persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:39.636
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.696
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.151
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.441
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.610
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.114
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.166
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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29.934
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 7.571
And the system is very low on memory 3.550
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.278
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.630
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.439
And I free up some memory 0.796
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.494
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:28.350
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 8.176
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.268
And all tps features are active 1.163
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.169
When I disable the first tps feature 3.013
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.284
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.980
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.082
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.037
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13.274
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.871
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.556
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.434
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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12.978
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 7.090
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I disable the first tps feature 2.703
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.967
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.495
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 7.307
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 13.735
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.177
When I write some files expected to persist 1.282
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.474
# 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" 12.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.583
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 7.088
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 10.358
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.492
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.265
And I capture all network traffic 0.010
And the network is plugged 0.023
And Tor is ready 11.656
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.370
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.087
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41.420
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 8.662
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.067
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.448
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:50.798
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 9.024
When I enable persistence 13.104
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.941
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.551
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.320
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.226
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.493
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.111
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
When I cold reboot the computer 10.395
And the computer reboots Tails 38.026
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.328
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.194
Given I enable persistence 7.125
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.224
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.372
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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2:13.118
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 8.158
# 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 28.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.554
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.896
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.028
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39.059
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 8.485
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.748
Then persistence is disabled 0.094
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.602
And all notifications have disappeared 7.757
When I delete the persistent partition 2.951
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:18.592
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 7.955
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.564
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.692
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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43.819
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 8.177
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.040
When I try to enable persistence 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.369
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.377
And all notifications have disappeared 7.872
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.423
And all tps features are enabled 1.078
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:5.093
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 32.484
And I enable persistence 18.932
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.573
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.539
And persistence is enabled 1.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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22.616
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 6.921
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.103
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.591
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.948
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 8.292
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.535
When I enable persistence 6.979
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.046
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.576
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 7.902
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.698
When I try to enable persistence 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.669
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.216
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.561
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.149
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.308
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 7.646
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.895
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 11.301
And all notifications have disappeared 8.850
# 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" 0.205
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.597
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.251
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.322
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.218
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 7.675
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.890
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.350
When I try to enable persistence 1.159
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.632
When I log in to a new session 10.814
And all notifications have disappeared 8.622
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.317
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000