Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6706 29 Sep 2026, 15:54

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 24:46.482 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:32.515
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 1:18.526
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.084
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.247
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.472
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 8.311
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.469
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.219
And persistence is disabled 0.074
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.396
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.886
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 8.681
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.200
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.252
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.177
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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28.708
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 7.865
And the system is very low on memory 4.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.240
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.795
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.132
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.402
And I free up some memory 0.431
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.697
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:46.779
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.507
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.315
And all tps features are active 7.651
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.447
When I disable the first tps feature 2.481
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.227
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.251
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.870
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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13.314
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 7.817
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I disable the first tps feature 2.486
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 2.605
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.552
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 enabled and logged in 8.040
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.054
And I disable the first tps feature 2.466
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.862
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
41.900
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 7.626
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 9.699
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.827
When I write some files expected to persist 1.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.196
# 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" 11.354
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.277
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 7.766
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 9.009
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.257
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.305
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 11.188
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
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38.401
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 8.741
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.072
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.937
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.896
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 8.756
When I enable persistence 20.963
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.778
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.188
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.255
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.190
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.455
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.366
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 5.854
And the computer reboots Tails 33.107
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.360
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.251
Given I enable persistence 12.441
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.063
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.239
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.300
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:11.885
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 8.153
# 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 30.241
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.426
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.875
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
37.917
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 8.405
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.238
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.457
And all notifications have disappeared 7.866
When I delete the persistent partition 2.634
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:17.006
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 8.461
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.237
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.059
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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1:0.217
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 8.136
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.101
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.915
And all notifications have disappeared 8.646
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.246
And all tps features are enabled 8.975
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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4:33.507
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 3:47.611
And I enable persistence 29.265
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.295
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.553
And persistence is enabled 7.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.753
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 7.530
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.595
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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41.259
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 8.764
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.763
When I enable persistence 13.911
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.039
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.780
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.546
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 8.016
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.250
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.212
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.196
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.114
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.560
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.393
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 7.945
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.368
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.027
When I log in to a new session 8.735
And all notifications have disappeared 8.421
# 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" 0.218
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.080
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.163
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.088
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.291
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 8.048
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.767
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.285
When I try to enable persistence 1.182
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.472
When I log in to a new session 8.767
And all notifications have disappeared 8.649
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.346
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000