Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6677 17 Sep 2026, 11:41

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 24:45.250 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.042
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:20.561
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.463
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.260
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.476
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.903
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.354
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.191
And persistence is disabled 0.093
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.228
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.183
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.254
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.327
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.252
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.793
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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30.686
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.266
And the system is very low on memory 4.146
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.269
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.166
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.153
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.366
And I free up some memory 0.510
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.762
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.672
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.608
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.331
And all tps features are active 9.394
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.976
When I disable the first tps feature 2.480
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.732
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.794
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.450
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.346
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.980
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 2.515
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.437
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.049
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.810
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.934
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.237
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 2.636
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.879
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
44.356
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.989
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 10.084
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.370
When I write some files expected to persist 1.187
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.370
# 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" 12.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:43.321
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.584
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 8.421
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.118
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.586
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.892
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.044
And Tor is ready 11.058
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.331
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.133
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
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40.067
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.962
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.089
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.405
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:6.494
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.061
When I enable persistence 25.426
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.989
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.408
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.380
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.292
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 5.830
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.278
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.110
When I cold reboot the computer 6.330
And the computer reboots Tails 35.197
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.399
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.244
Given I enable persistence 16.874
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.103
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.160
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.266
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.037
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2:10.512
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.747
# 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 26.461
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.358
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.766
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.030
Tags: @product
40.825
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.929
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.201
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.135
And all notifications have disappeared 9.188
When I delete the persistent partition 2.866
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:39.143
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 22.442
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.073
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.568
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.708
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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1:0.526
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 9.111
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.057
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.018
And all notifications have disappeared 8.662
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.279
And all tps features are enabled 8.490
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.844
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 2:6.575
And I enable persistence 28.288
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.260
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.582
And persistence is enabled 8.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.403
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 7.967
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.752
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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58.662
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 22.855
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.873
When I enable persistence 15.508
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.048
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.106
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.215
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.658
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.270
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.221
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.071
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.266
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.588
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.131
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 10.245
And all notifications have disappeared 8.686
# 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" 0.256
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.334
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.179
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.141
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.585
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 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 8.021
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.508
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.399
When I try to enable persistence 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.464
When I log in to a new session 8.363
And all notifications have disappeared 7.570
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.100
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000