Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6681 17 Sep 2026, 16:23

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 23:0.028 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.677
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.143
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.550
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.228
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.645
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 8.852
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.910
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.232
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.535
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 8.616
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.363
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.810
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.730
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.668
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
28.819
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.987
And the system is very low on memory 4.019
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.192
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.850
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.100
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.368
And I free up some memory 0.453
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.806
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.234
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 8.418
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.334
And all tps features are active 7.998
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.576
When I disable the first tps feature 2.522
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.757
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.620
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.134
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.818
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.037
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.445
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.053
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.475
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.468
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 7.948
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
And I disable the first tps feature 2.578
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.783
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
40.937
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 enabled and logged in 7.754
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 10.076
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.555
When I write some files expected to persist 1.281
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.148
# 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" 11.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.084
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 7.785
And the network is plugged 0.037
And Tor is ready 11.502
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.492
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.924
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.042
And Tor is ready 10.624
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.382
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.056
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product
37.658
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.338
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.105
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.349
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.877
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 8.559
When I enable persistence 22.627
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.455
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.438
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.367
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.314
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.548
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.903
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
When I cold reboot the computer 5.906
And the computer reboots Tails 32.709
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.233
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.233
Given I enable persistence 12.738
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.062
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.130
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.364
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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2:6.023
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 8.191
# 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 27.204
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.415
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.333
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
38.536
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.475
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.780
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.779
And all notifications have disappeared 8.532
When I delete the persistent partition 2.651
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.592
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.957
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 8.145
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.717
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.834
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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56.161
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 8.046
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.255
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.588
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.190
And all notifications have disappeared 7.994
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.211
And all tps features are enabled 7.387
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.517
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.596
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.008
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 1:54.482
And I enable persistence 26.429
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.725
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.503
And persistence is enabled 8.454
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.186
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 7.417
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.286
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
52.889
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 21.992
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.504
When I enable persistence 12.667
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.035
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.507
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 8.225
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.752
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.385
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.210
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.191
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 8.299
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.141
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 9.455
And all notifications have disappeared 7.967
# 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" 0.324
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.088
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.214
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.159
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.519
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.904
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 8.188
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.056
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.283
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.337
When I log in to a new session 8.509
And all notifications have disappeared 7.307
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.193
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.792
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000