Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6724 06 Oct 2026, 07:36

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 24:4.241 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:58.446
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:18.749
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.103
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.668
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.799
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 8.637
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.959
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.256
And persistence is disabled 0.080
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.866
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.292
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 22.036
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.238
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.620
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 5.316
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.771
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.137
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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31.216
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.546
And the system is very low on memory 4.762
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.175
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.407
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.117
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.458
And I free up some memory 0.910
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.796
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:0.082
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 21.367
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.262
And all tps features are active 8.535
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.973
When I disable the first tps feature 2.500
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.467
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.286
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.101
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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26.212
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 20.927
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I disable the first tps feature 2.491
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.045
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.535
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.995
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.100
And I disable the first tps feature 2.491
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.852
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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43.240
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 7.760
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 10.853
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.568
When I write some files expected to persist 1.228
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.546
# 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 0.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.532
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 7.676
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 8.523
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.248
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.092
And I capture all network traffic 0.022
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 10.258
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.345
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.105
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38.899
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 8.389
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.096
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.919
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.325
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 8.928
When I enable persistence 25.660
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.714
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.126
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.417
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.303
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.568
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.815
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 4.787
And the computer reboots Tails 34.077
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.335
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.299
Given I enable persistence 15.554
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.061
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 7.204
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:10.296
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 8.509
# 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 27.554
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.354
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.292
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
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37.755
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 8.327
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.695
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.770
And all notifications have disappeared 7.799
When I delete the persistent partition 2.766
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.952
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.391
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 8.022
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.262
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.892
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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56.486
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 8.132
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.145
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.241
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.156
And all notifications have disappeared 8.557
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.315
And all tps features are enabled 8.174
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:37.279
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 1:55.372
And I enable persistence 25.955
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.620
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.506
And persistence is enabled 7.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.340
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 7.551
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.313
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.486
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 8.692
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.699
When I enable persistence 13.362
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.943
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 8.312
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.040
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.576
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.237
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.119
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.158
Then persistence is successfully enabled 4.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.363
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 8.009
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.156
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.310
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.214
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 8.074
And all notifications have disappeared 6.895
# 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" 0.358
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.105
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.250
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.093
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.310
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 8.367
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.713
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.300
When I try to enable persistence 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.404
When I log in to a new session 7.531
And all notifications have disappeared 6.887
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.174
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000