Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6396 21 May 2026, 11:53

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 22:52.062 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.099
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 1:24.027
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.854
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.329
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.961
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 8.855
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.210
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.243
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:51.118
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 9.467
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.421
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.698
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.801
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.332
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.008
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32.432
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 7.950
And the system is very low on memory 4.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.422
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.297
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.090
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.528
And I free up some memory 0.939
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.053
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.498
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 8.882
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.411
And all tps features are active 1.936
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.858
When I disable the first tps feature 3.179
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.736
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.227
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.990
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.025
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14.988
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 8.696
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.128
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.100
When I disable the first tps feature 3.151
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.616
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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13.950
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 7.612
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
And I disable the first tps feature 2.567
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.553
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
46.348
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.007
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 13.317
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.228
When I write some files expected to persist 1.647
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.877
# 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" 13.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:53.147
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 7.774
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 13.717
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.155
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.949
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.069
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.764
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.453
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.112
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.057
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45.692
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 9.496
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.084
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.778
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:57.686
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 8.705
When I enable persistence 14.299
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.424
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.155
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.456
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.301
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.546
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.526
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.205
When I cold reboot the computer 9.527
And the computer reboots Tails 40.176
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.305
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.235
Given I enable persistence 8.041
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.130
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.294
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.161
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
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2:42.012
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 8.433
# 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 42.084
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.228
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:21.114
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.010
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40.996
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 8.762
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.410
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.147
And all notifications have disappeared 8.494
When I delete the persistent partition 2.717
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.817
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:30.531
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 8.353
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.598
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.188
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.023
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43.737
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 8.339
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 11.746
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.463
And all notifications have disappeared 8.324
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.339
And all tps features are enabled 1.050
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.994
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:8.612
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 32.188
And I enable persistence 21.905
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.706
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.711
And persistence is enabled 2.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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26.053
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 7.777
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.605
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
27.368
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 8.744
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.213
When I enable persistence 7.357
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.434
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 8.348
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.875
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.242
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.695
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.167
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.389
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.031
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.573
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 8.067
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.092
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.038
When I log in to a new session 13.110
And all notifications have disappeared 11.619
# 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" 0.301
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.750
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.207
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.298
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.816
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 7.961
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.605
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.391
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.720
When I log in to a new session 13.224
And all notifications have disappeared 8.459
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.386
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000