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test_Tails_ISO_stable 6721 05 Oct 2026, 11:39

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 24:22.222 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.168
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 1:23.648
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.018
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.609
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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27.889
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 8.418
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.535
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.242
And persistence is disabled 0.077
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.832
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 8.962
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.276
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.944
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.546
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.773
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.153
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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43.792
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 22.176
And the system is very low on memory 4.216
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.151
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.405
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.091
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.372
And I free up some memory 0.442
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.885
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:53.537
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 8.612
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.261
And all tps features are active 9.339
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.936
When I disable the first tps feature 3.086
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.427
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.081
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.860
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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13.651
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 8.292
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I disable the first tps feature 2.527
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.871
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 7.709
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 3.032
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.937
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.304
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 7.928
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 12.003
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.843
When I write some files expected to persist 1.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.447
# 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" 11.920
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:39.454
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 7.837
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 8.566
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.342
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.944
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.038
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.399
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.058
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.044
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39.093
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.651
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.100
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.536
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:50.698
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 8.727
When I enable persistence 20.689
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 12.386
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.978
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.388
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.154
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.465
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.664
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
When I cold reboot the computer 6.039
And the computer reboots Tails 34.359
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.352
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.287
Given I enable persistence 14.288
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.063
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.168
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.409
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:9.505
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 8.910
# 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 28.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.361
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.379
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.031
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40.190
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 9.290
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.726
Then persistence is disabled 0.082
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.251
And all notifications have disappeared 7.857
When I delete the persistent partition 2.636
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:22.797
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 8.687
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.356
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.415
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.010
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1:1.063
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 8.705
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.171
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.760
And all notifications have disappeared 8.846
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.348
And all tps features are enabled 9.448
And all tps features but the first one are active 9.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:51.729
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 2:6.737
And I enable persistence 28.221
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.363
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.515
And persistence is enabled 7.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.825
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 7.661
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.665
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.046
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 8.619
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.841
When I enable persistence 16.125
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.110
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.669
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.113
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 8.281
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.271
When I try to enable persistence 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.024
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.094
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.236
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.099
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.009
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.426
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.732
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.139
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.031
When I log in to a new session 8.470
And all notifications have disappeared 7.317
# 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" 0.179
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.082
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.245
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.154
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.647
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 8.084
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.232
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.310
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.353
When I log in to a new session 8.952
And all notifications have disappeared 8.332
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.178
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000