Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6731 08 Oct 2026, 16:02

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 23:16.374 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:13.418
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 1:30.599
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.393
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.731
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.257
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 8.596
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.455
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.231
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:35.930
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 9.129
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.337
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.300
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.612
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.161
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.214
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
29.208
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.488
And the system is very low on memory 4.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.330
When I try to create a persistent partition 3.946
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.172
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.360
And I free up some memory 0.691
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.099
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.276
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 21.745
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.237
And all tps features are active 8.571
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.031
When I disable the first tps feature 2.489
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.711
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.270
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.757
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
13.738
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 8.413
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 2.494
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.090
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.407
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.638
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 7.536
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.964
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.936
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.484
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 7.727
And the network is plugged 1.029
And Tor is ready 12.867
And I take note of which tps features are available 5.938
When I write some files expected to persist 0.976
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.275
# 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" 11.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:35.616
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 7.644
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 9.078
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.376
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.138
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 10.634
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.348
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.085
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
37.480
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 8.277
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.089
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.538
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.690
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.542
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 8.231
When I enable persistence 20.772
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.709
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.345
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.219
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.133
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.464
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.393
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.122
When I cold reboot the computer 5.838
And the computer reboots Tails 32.208
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.204
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.159
Given I enable persistence 12.030
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.058
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.155
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.378
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.021
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2:2.140
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 8.073
# 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 27.434
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.268
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.089
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.049
Tags: @product
35.748
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 7.796
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.854
Then persistence is disabled 0.074
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.105
And all notifications have disappeared 8.115
When I delete the persistent partition 2.584
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:16.048
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 7.804
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.045
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.297
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.731
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
53.381
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 7.865
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.624
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.303
And all notifications have disappeared 8.149
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.204
And all tps features are enabled 7.589
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:32.835
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 1:53.049
And I enable persistence 24.515
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.480
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.485
And persistence is enabled 7.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.839
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 7.329
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.056
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.453
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
37.984
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 8.419
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.343
When I enable persistence 12.311
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
27.052
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 7.782
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.373
When I try to enable persistence 1.333
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.064
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.104
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.044
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.198
Then persistence is successfully enabled 2.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.143
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 7.716
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.184
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.749
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.081
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 8.031
And all notifications have disappeared 7.090
# 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" 0.108
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.066
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.160
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.010
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.607
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.714
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.929
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.266
When I try to enable persistence 1.163
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.335
When I log in to a new session 7.518
And all notifications have disappeared 7.586
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.153
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000