Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6736 12 Oct 2026, 11:34

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 25:14.218 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.617
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 1:23.092
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.482
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.283
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.284
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 8.779
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.455
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.260
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.295
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 25.302
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.439
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.068
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.578
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.238
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.162
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.053
Tags: @product
32.884
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 9.261
And the system is very low on memory 4.035
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.206
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.937
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.145
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.704
And I free up some memory 1.975
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.570
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.222
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 9.001
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
And all tps features are active 8.987
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.068
When I disable the first tps feature 2.520
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.792
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.609
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.535
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.060
Tags: @product
14.113
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 enabled and logged in 8.072
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I disable the first tps feature 2.968
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.122
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.522
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.667
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.940
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 8.228
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 2.558
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.978
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
49.739
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.542
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 13.106
And I take note of which tps features are available 9.294
When I write some files expected to persist 1.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.288
# 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" 12.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:44.293
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 7.787
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 11.667
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.126
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.324
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.721
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 12.036
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.353
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.058
Tags: @product
41.959
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.091
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.106
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.538
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:59.912
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 9.610
When I enable persistence 23.700
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.052
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.481
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.453
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.254
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.520
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.157
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 6.009
And the computer reboots Tails 36.077
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.264
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.262
Given I enable persistence 15.409
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.082
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.198
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.098
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:10.705
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 8.916
# 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 29.823
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.628
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.978
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.968
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
39.166
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 7.969
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.053
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.872
And all notifications have disappeared 8.260
When I delete the persistent partition 2.642
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:29.903
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 8.177
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.728
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.659
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
1:9.595
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 8.529
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.169
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.186
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.558
And all notifications have disappeared 8.408
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.411
And all tps features are enabled 13.793
And all tps features but the first one are active 11.463
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:2.418
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 2:15.634
And I enable persistence 27.673
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.496
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.708
And persistence is enabled 9.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
45.926
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 20.891
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.502
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.844
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.218
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 9.037
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.435
When I enable persistence 14.460
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.038
And persistence is successfully enabled 10.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
29.350
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 8.572
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.274
When I try to enable persistence 1.283
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.799
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.305
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.219
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.805
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.290
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.342
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.092
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.426
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.161
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 10.117
And all notifications have disappeared 7.144
# 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" 0.247
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.077
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.151
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.289
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.379
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 8.407
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.835
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.382
When I try to enable persistence 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.642
When I log in to a new session 9.175
And all notifications have disappeared 7.308
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.350
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000