Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6398 22 May 2026, 11:40

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 21:41.450 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.906
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.013
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:25.550
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.976
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.254
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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29.747
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.965
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.425
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.367
And persistence is disabled 0.165
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:43.799
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 8.850
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.135
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.470
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.387
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.360
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.183
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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32.024
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 8.470
And the system is very low on memory 4.121
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.194
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.491
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.160
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.368
And I free up some memory 1.147
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.013
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.769
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:38.747
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 8.558
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.382
And all tps features are active 1.567
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.351
When I disable the first tps feature 3.149
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.456
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.850
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.177
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.011
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13.593
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 7.480
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 3.155
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.059
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.818
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 7.946
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.085
And I disable the first tps feature 2.611
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.028
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.115
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 enabled and logged in 7.994
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 14.027
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.323
When I write some files expected to persist 1.363
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.104
# 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" 13.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:45.760
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 7.820
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.437
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.166
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.665
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.499
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 11.558
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.391
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.067
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.037
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41.952
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 9.296
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.097
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.753
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:53.269
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 9.049
When I enable persistence 13.370
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.993
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.739
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.370
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.258
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.606
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.506
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.228
When I cold reboot the computer 9.469
And the computer reboots Tails 38.426
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.300
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.193
Given I enable persistence 7.769
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.071
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.276
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.482
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.022
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2:22.751
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 7.747
# 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 25.557
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.576
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:17.622
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
Tags: @product
39.335
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 7.898
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.053
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.156
And all notifications have disappeared 8.018
When I delete the persistent partition 2.751
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:24.508
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 8.035
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.052
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.816
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.264
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.006
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44.985
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 8.147
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.172
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.487
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.771
And all notifications have disappeared 7.629
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.907
And all tps features are enabled 1.315
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:5.220
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 31.117
And I enable persistence 20.249
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.568
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.553
And persistence is enabled 1.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.983
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.123
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.284
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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25.396
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.048
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.021
When I enable persistence 6.942
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
26.877
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 7.870
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.810
When I try to enable persistence 1.314
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.665
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.229
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.575
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.078
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.194
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.370
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 7.454
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.806
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.693
And all notifications have disappeared 9.705
# 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" 0.206
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.508
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.274
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.449
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 1.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.282
Before features/support/hooks.rb:270 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:277 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.871
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.314
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.340
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.190
When I log in to a new session 12.888
And all notifications have disappeared 8.598
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.068
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000