Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6738 12 Oct 2026, 12:32

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 24:57.304 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:2.235
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 1:22.151
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.364
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.572
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.573
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 9.188
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.111
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.265
And persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.475
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 9.016
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.263
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.661
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.105
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.617
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.499
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.173
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.020
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31.879
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.455
And the system is very low on memory 4.151
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.252
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.270
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.141
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.402
And I free up some memory 0.863
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.290
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.899
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.209
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 9.394
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 8.594
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.355
When I disable the first tps feature 2.645
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.193
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.339
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.946
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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13.987
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 8.419
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.105
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.612
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.072
When I enable the first tps feature 2.474
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.048
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.949
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 8.137
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
And I disable the first tps feature 2.617
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.030
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.771
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 8.347
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 12.883
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.264
When I write some files expected to persist 1.130
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.399
# 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" 12.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.364
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 7.878
And the network is plugged 0.031
And Tor is ready 10.233
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.137
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.421
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.201
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 11.920
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.325
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.055
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40.359
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 9.154
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.099
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.835
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:59.028
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 9.338
When I enable persistence 23.244
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.878
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.823
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.281
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.230
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.562
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 22.915
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.135
When I cold reboot the computer 6.015
And the computer reboots Tails 36.456
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.226
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.295
Given I enable persistence 15.854
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.075
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.140
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.414
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.017
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2:12.321
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 8.791
# 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 29.891
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.742
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.080
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
41.641
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 9.191
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.086
Then persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.575
And all notifications have disappeared 8.750
When I delete the persistent partition 2.699
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:27.311
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 9.017
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.801
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.155
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.948
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
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1:3.971
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 8.994
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.138
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.061
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.110
And all notifications have disappeared 8.311
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.263
And all tps features are enabled 9.944
And all tps features but the first one are active 11.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:57.149
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 2:9.889
And I enable persistence 29.372
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.075
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.565
And persistence is enabled 9.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.438
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 7.710
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.912
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.580
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 9.704
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.449
When I enable persistence 14.473
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.902
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.587
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 8.472
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.006
When I try to enable persistence 1.336
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.413
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.230
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.194
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.125
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.764
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.664
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 8.776
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.166
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.612
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.263
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 9.298
And all notifications have disappeared 7.880
# 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" 0.129
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.116
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.209
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.085
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.585
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.802
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 8.609
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.453
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.373
When I try to enable persistence 1.199
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.323
When I log in to a new session 8.154
And all notifications have disappeared 9.201
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.517
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000