Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6751 17 Oct 2026, 11:29

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 23:12.935 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:54.714
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:14.971
And I update the APT lists using apt 35.390
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 3.598
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.869
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 8.327
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.726
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.179
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.545
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.652
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 8.646
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.373
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.090
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.043
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.172
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.056
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.137
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.015
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28.287
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 logged in 7.811
And the system is very low on memory 3.762
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.140
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.557
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.073
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.370
And I free up some memory 0.465
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:44.197
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 8.244
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.259
And all tps features are active 7.251
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.648
When I disable the first tps feature 2.444
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.884
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.641
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.416
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
Tags: @product
12.926
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 7.733
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.051
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.054
When I disable the first tps feature 2.443
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.044
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.025
When I enable the first tps feature 2.376
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.064
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 7.649
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.047
And I disable the first tps feature 2.477
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.789
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.065
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 7.583
And the network is plugged 0.034
And Tor is ready 11.916
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.179
When I write some files expected to persist 0.901
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.458
# 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" 10.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.204
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:34.042
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 7.546
And the network is plugged 0.024
And Tor is ready 7.973
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.101
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.175
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.178
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.026
And Tor is ready 11.510
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.343
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.055
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.059
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36.038
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.429
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.103
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.751
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:47.122
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 8.387
When I enable persistence 21.323
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.661
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.427
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.202
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.138
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.423
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.515
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
When I cold reboot the computer 5.843
And the computer reboots Tails 32.396
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.324
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.287
Given I enable persistence 12.881
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.065
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.274
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.668
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.022
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2:6.366
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 8.233
# 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 27.936
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.945
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.400
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.850
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
Tags: @product
36.675
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 7.838
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.033
Then persistence is disabled 0.072
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.849
And all notifications have disappeared 7.988
When I delete the persistent partition 2.646
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:30.489
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 20.783
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.300
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.141
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.695
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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55.446
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" 0.042
When I try to enable persistence 1.183
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.774
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.907
And all notifications have disappeared 8.591
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.272
And all tps features are enabled 7.911
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:40.163
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 1:57.796
And I enable persistence 25.560
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.628
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.519
And persistence is enabled 8.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.191
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 20.261
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.501
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.428
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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40.703
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 8.021
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.253
When I enable persistence 15.503
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.041
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
28.050
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 8.369
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.951
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.540
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.124
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.185
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.118
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.373
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 8.115
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.171
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.794
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.248
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 7.540
And all notifications have disappeared 8.048
# 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" 0.143
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.131
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.244
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.046
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.494
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 8.655
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.896
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.362
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.499
When I log in to a new session 8.052
And all notifications have disappeared 7.674
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.129
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.760
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000