Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6684 20 Sep 2026, 11:28

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 22:9.068 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:31.000
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 1:17.150
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.918
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.233
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.493
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 8.366
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.460
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.187
And persistence is disabled 0.073
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.713
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 logged in 9.000
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.425
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.182
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.528
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.135
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
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28.185
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 7.823
And the system is very low on memory 4.291
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.187
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.345
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.107
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.316
And I free up some memory 0.491
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.583
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.960
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.063
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.247
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.274
And all tps features are active 7.420
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.462
When I disable the first tps feature 2.569
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.582
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.140
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.507
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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12.864
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 7.668
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
When I disable the first tps feature 2.467
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.046
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.031
When I enable the first tps feature 2.393
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.783
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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25.950
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 20.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.431
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.847
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
39.646
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 7.603
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 8.009
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.787
When I write some files expected to persist 0.829
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.131
# 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" 11.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.581
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 7.755
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 10.038
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 5.346
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.676
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 11.995
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.405
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.052
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.073
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36.626
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 8.392
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 12.463
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.765
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 8.766
When I enable persistence 20.324
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.603
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.364
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.319
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.331
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.566
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.135
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.121
When I cold reboot the computer 5.832
And the computer reboots Tails 31.795
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.304
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.243
Given I enable persistence 11.928
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.066
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.299
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.598
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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2:2.062
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 7.998
# 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 26.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.513
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.239
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.028
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35.955
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 7.970
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.623
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.488
And all notifications have disappeared 7.863
When I delete the persistent partition 2.700
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:14.316
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 7.739
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.152
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.170
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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52.707
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 7.999
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.423
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.228
And all notifications have disappeared 7.340
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.271
And all tps features are enabled 7.604
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:38.019
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 1:57.513
And I enable persistence 24.427
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.849
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.607
And persistence is enabled 7.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.051
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 7.381
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.220
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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36.743
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 8.062
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.113
When I enable persistence 12.279
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.031
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.273
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 7.883
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.297
When I try to enable persistence 1.256
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.294
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.094
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.137
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.214
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.494
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 7.852
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.158
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.479
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 7.826
And all notifications have disappeared 7.846
# 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" 0.144
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.061
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.143
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.002
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.552
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 7.798
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.467
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.271
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.426
When I log in to a new session 6.611
And all notifications have disappeared 6.683
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.278
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000