Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6692 25 Sep 2026, 12:12

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 23:44.157 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:29.341
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 1:16.403
And I update the APT lists using apt 5.997
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.219
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.926
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 8.521
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.885
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.224
And persistence is disabled 0.072
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.456
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 21.822
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.214
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.813
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 3.981
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.305
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.133
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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54.080
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 34.262
And the system is very low on memory 3.879
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.152
When I try to create a persistent partition 3.941
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.105
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.355
And I free up some memory 0.424
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.918
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.435
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 8.173
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
And all tps features are active 7.785
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.730
When I disable the first tps feature 2.418
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.268
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.712
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.876
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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13.073
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 7.819
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.477
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.033
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.020
When I enable the first tps feature 2.429
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.637
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.009
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 7.471
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.476
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.896
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
53.622
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 20.626
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 9.804
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.183
When I write some files expected to persist 0.795
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.198
# 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" 10.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:48.440
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 20.601
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 8.337
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.099
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.281
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.066
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 11.523
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.311
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.046
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38.398
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 8.438
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.060
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.667
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:45.447
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 8.286
When I enable persistence 21.148
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.612
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.570
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.359
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.126
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.464
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.624
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.112
When I cold reboot the computer 5.685
And the computer reboots Tails 33.244
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.309
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.104
Given I enable persistence 12.002
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.055
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 6.457
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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2:40.892
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 47.306
# 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 26.593
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.139
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.445
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
36.300
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 7.668
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.506
Then persistence is disabled 0.075
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.038
And all notifications have disappeared 8.136
When I delete the persistent partition 2.631
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.405
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 7.898
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.309
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.917
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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53.203
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 7.825
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.048
When I try to enable persistence 1.141
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.758
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.990
And all notifications have disappeared 8.338
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.229
And all tps features are enabled 7.574
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:36.410
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 1:56.774
And I enable persistence 24.748
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.124
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.514
And persistence is enabled 7.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.009
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 7.394
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.180
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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38.012
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 7.974
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.377
When I enable persistence 12.599
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.766
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 7.838
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.523
When I try to enable persistence 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.389
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.097
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.272
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.041
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.226
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.001
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 7.667
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.488
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.100
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.022
When I log in to a new session 8.072
And all notifications have disappeared 7.188
# 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" 0.185
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.121
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.197
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.023
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
37.922
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 7.659
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.821
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.222
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.184
When I log in to a new session 7.753
And all notifications have disappeared 7.043
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.190
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000