Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6395 21 May 2026, 11:36

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 22:35.924 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:40.031
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 1:26.005
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.758
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.258
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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33.204
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 10.207
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.335
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.413
And persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.076
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 9.990
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.123
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.217
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.726
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.300
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.197
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.032
Tags: @product
33.875
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 9.536
And the system is very low on memory 4.421
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.312
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.000
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.122
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.822
And I free up some memory 0.980
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.616
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.856
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 8.761
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.361
And all tps features are active 1.609
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.527
When I disable the first tps feature 3.121
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.343
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.874
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.709
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
Tags: @product
14.285
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 8.222
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.073
When I disable the first tps feature 3.155
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.444
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
14.074
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 7.955
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.117
And I disable the first tps feature 2.889
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.964
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
45.259
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 7.713
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 12.948
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.304
When I write some files expected to persist 1.282
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.943
# 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" 13.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:52.193
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 8.028
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 10.682
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.571
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.732
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 12.340
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.452
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.088
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.044
Tags: @product
45.626
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 9.284
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.098
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.498
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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3:5.858
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.298
When I enable persistence 16.764
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.582
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.080
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.398
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.287
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.620
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.170
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.188
When I cold reboot the computer 10.761
And the computer reboots Tails 41.039
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.272
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.203
Given I enable persistence 8.940
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 11.690
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011
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2:16.971
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 8.832
# 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 26.511
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.553
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:10.475
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
Tags: @product
40.407
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 8.239
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.263
Then persistence is disabled 0.143
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.945
And all notifications have disappeared 8.042
When I delete the persistent partition 3.408
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.363
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:33.431
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 9.111
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.422
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.593
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.027
Tags: @product
43.928
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 8.062
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.099
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.122
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.914
And all notifications have disappeared 7.873
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.305
And all tps features are enabled 1.045
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:9.793
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 32.053
And I enable persistence 22.261
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.015
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.613
And persistence is enabled 1.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
24.770
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 7.342
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.792
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.635
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
29.042
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.868
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.052
When I enable persistence 8.593
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.379
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 7.731
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.621
When I try to enable persistence 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.570
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.176
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.416
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.076
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.169
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.661
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 7.848
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.470
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.231
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I log in to a new session 14.693
And all notifications have disappeared 9.696
# 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" 0.342
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.702
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.592
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.951
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.196
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 8.033
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.985
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.422
When I try to enable persistence 1.222
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.048
When I log in to a new session 13.099
And all notifications have disappeared 9.145
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.444
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000