Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6717 01 Oct 2026, 17:45

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 24:46.304 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.554
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 1:24.212
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.361
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.228
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.811
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 8.631
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.116
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.281
And persistence is disabled 0.091
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.525
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 9.672
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.369
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.703
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.285
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.114
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.161
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.683
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.040
Tags: @product
29.809
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 8.477
And the system is very low on memory 4.175
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.242
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.844
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.369
And I free up some memory 0.524
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.987
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:6.849
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 8.603
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.270
And all tps features are active 8.767
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.896
When I disable the first tps feature 2.674
Then all tps features but the first one are active 10.160
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.798
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.818
Then all tps features but the first one are active 12.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.016
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13.724
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 8.405
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I disable the first tps feature 2.464
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.029
When I enable the first tps feature 2.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
14.607
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 8.599
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
And I disable the first tps feature 3.036
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.802
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
54.409
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 8.235
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 16.411
And I take note of which tps features are available 9.983
When I write some files expected to persist 1.286
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.577
# 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" 12.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.409
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 8.097
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 10.158
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.132
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.339
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.833
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.231
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.371
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.065
Tags: @product
39.838
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 9.119
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.097
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.783
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:58.271
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 9.958
When I enable persistence 23.242
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.673
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.735
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.251
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.339
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.508
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.219
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
When I cold reboot the computer 5.992
And the computer reboots Tails 34.480
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.330
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.201
Given I enable persistence 14.600
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.077
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.294
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.066
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.062
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2:13.655
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 9.044
# 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 31.100
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.729
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:7.514
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.036
Tags: @product
39.239
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 8.893
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.427
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.630
And all notifications have disappeared 8.260
When I delete the persistent partition 2.649
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.776
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 22.255
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.047
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.891
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.393
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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1:0.336
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 8.725
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.215
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.019
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.863
And all notifications have disappeared 7.226
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.239
And all tps features are enabled 8.783
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:48.538
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:2.920
And I enable persistence 28.097
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.320
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.553
And persistence is enabled 8.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.198
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 7.911
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.677
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
42.639
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 9.194
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.161
When I enable persistence 15.150
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 9.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.867
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.049
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.032
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.831
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.232
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.253
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.316
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.737
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.345
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.167
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.026
When I log in to a new session 10.204
And all notifications have disappeared 7.973
# 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" 0.186
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.129
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.200
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.105
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.927
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 8.596
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.358
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.265
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.743
When I log in to a new session 9.102
And all notifications have disappeared 6.511
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.217
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000