Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6728 07 Oct 2026, 14:01

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 23:24.623 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:2.850
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 1:20.314
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.237
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.517
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.541
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 8.762
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.877
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.251
And persistence is disabled 0.075
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.679
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.794
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 8.800
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.265
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.125
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.926
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.341
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.084
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.163
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
28.572
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 7.938
And the system is very low on memory 4.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.199
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.437
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.157
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.368
And I free up some memory 0.463
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.831
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.760
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 8.478
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.290
And all tps features are active 7.983
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.847
When I disable the first tps feature 2.563
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.491
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.279
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.656
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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13.386
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 8.038
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 2.510
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.055
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.405
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.050
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.287
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 7.774
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.489
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.854
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.809
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.761
And the network is plugged 0.036
And Tor is ready 12.736
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.159
When I write some files expected to persist 1.163
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.337
# 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" 11.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:37.259
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 enabled and logged in 7.813
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 8.194
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.370
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.235
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.046
And Tor is ready 11.003
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.294
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.042
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.059
Tags: @product
36.933
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.691
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.071
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.241
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 13.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:52.729
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 8.762
When I enable persistence 22.909
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.875
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.098
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.268
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.147
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.420
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.200
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
When I cold reboot the computer 5.758
And the computer reboots Tails 33.808
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.380
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.287
Given I enable persistence 14.037
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.079
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.305
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.115
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.511
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:8.995
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 8.257
# 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 27.704
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.483
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.974
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.023
Tags: @product
37.946
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 8.665
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.987
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.298
And all notifications have disappeared 8.022
When I delete the persistent partition 2.645
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:19.565
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.414
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.040
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.245
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.693
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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56.700
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 8.806
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.822
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.851
And all notifications have disappeared 7.941
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.348
And all tps features are enabled 7.984
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:39.917
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:57.388
And I enable persistence 25.823
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.347
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.598
And persistence is enabled 7.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.665
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
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 7.848
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.312
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.504
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
38.954
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" 9.239
When I enable persistence 13.049
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.188
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 8.093
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.510
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.350
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.102
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.112
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.125
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.164
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 8.178
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.359
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.102
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.021
When I log in to a new session 8.221
And all notifications have disappeared 7.503
# 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" 0.160
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.075
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.147
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.080
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.598
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 8.185
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.562
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.233
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.848
When I log in to a new session 7.995
And all notifications have disappeared 6.550
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.205
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000