Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6399 22 May 2026, 12:15

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 21:44.098 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.780
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 1:22.954
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.617
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.248
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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30.419
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 9.194
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.761
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406
And persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:42.586
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 8.709
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.297
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.136
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.375
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.646
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 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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30.261
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 7.587
And the system is very low on memory 3.992
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.248
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.935
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.196
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.581
And I free up some memory 0.835
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.821
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:38.481
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 8.802
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 1.205
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.038
When I disable the first tps feature 2.708
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.363
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.149
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.239
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.007
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13.835
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 8.354
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I disable the first tps feature 2.553
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.522
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
13.416
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 7.724
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I disable the first tps feature 2.594
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.867
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
44.178
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 7.238
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 13.067
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.212
When I write some files expected to persist 1.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.806
# 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" 12.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:47.370
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 7.591
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 10.359
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.151
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.700
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.943
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.913
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.451
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.092
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.051
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42.480
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 9.207
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.095
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.082
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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2:52.017
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 8.887
When I enable persistence 13.887
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.980
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.915
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.311
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.284
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.635
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.091
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
When I cold reboot the computer 6.680
And the computer reboots Tails 39.509
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.517
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.286
Given I enable persistence 8.795
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.086
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.265
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.513
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.081
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2:27.386
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 8.799
# 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 28.292
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.555
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:20.066
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.059
Tags: @product
41.154
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 log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.205
Then persistence is disabled 0.089
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.041
And all notifications have disappeared 8.587
When I delete the persistent partition 2.764
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
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1:26.238
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 7.958
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.740
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.090
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.009
Tags: @product
45.294
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 8.542
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.209
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.751
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.127
And all notifications have disappeared 7.906
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.885
And all tps features are enabled 1.534
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
1:6.719
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 31.922
And I enable persistence 20.352
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.109
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.586
And persistence is enabled 1.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
23.404
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 7.360
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.375
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.401
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 8.199
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.835
When I enable persistence 6.951
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.083
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product
25.306
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 7.755
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.733
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.530
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.441
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.157
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.935
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 7.636
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.017
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 11.256
And all notifications have disappeared 9.139
# 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" 0.232
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.525
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.198
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.391
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.207
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.427
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 7.942
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.958
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.325
When I try to enable persistence 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.942
When I log in to a new session 12.245
And all notifications have disappeared 7.894
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.077
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:335 1.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:104 0.000