Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_web-release-7.12 2 02 Sep 2026, 18:18

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 24:40.494 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.265
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.018
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:48.022
And I update the APT lists using apt 8.230
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.267
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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29.329
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 8.702
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.583
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.235
And persistence is disabled 0.076
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:38.759
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 8.975
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.252
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.808
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.340
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.023
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.158
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.068
Tags: @product
31.785
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.741
And the system is very low on memory 6.026
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.228
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.681
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.132
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.478
And I free up some memory 0.580
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.838
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
1:56.045
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 8.714
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
And all tps features are active 8.414
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.840
When I disable the first tps feature 2.594
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.593
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.853
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.671
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.007
Tags: @product
13.938
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 7.922
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.099
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.086
When I disable the first tps feature 3.077
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.436
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.775
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 7.976
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.589
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.032
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
47.077
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 8.249
And the network is plugged 0.028
And Tor is ready 12.059
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.872
When I write some files expected to persist 1.228
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.332
# 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" 12.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:47.071
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 8.023
And the network is plugged 0.032
And Tor is ready 12.127
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.220
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.274
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.041
And Tor is ready 11.671
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.363
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.748
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.077
Tags: @product
41.098
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 9.134
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.095
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.017
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:1.040
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 9.409
When I enable persistence 25.494
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.934
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.580
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.468
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.176
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.501
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.997
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.143
When I cold reboot the computer 6.141
And the computer reboots Tails 35.599
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.356
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.295
Given I enable persistence 14.932
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.068
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.225
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.558
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.819
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.063
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2:14.791
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 9.039
# 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 30.587
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.557
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.903
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.013
Tags: @product
39.567
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 9.159
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.301
Then persistence is disabled 0.095
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.241
And all notifications have disappeared 7.786
When I delete the persistent partition 2.669
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:21.605
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 8.368
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.384
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.606
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.050
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1:0.432
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 9.316
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.195
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.759
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.421
And all notifications have disappeared 8.225
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.399
And all tps features are enabled 8.175
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:46.459
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 2:1.209
And I enable persistence 28.050
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.550
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.519
And persistence is enabled 9.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.296
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 7.966
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.495
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.674
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 9.137
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.874
When I enable persistence 14.789
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
30.466
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 corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.000
When I try to enable persistence 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.996
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.259
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.396
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.220
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.161
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.535
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.076
When I try to enable persistence 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.377
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.193
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.581
And all notifications have disappeared 8.227
# 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" 0.128
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.095
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.279
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.426
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
42.850
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 8.393
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.824
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.349
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.803
When I log in to a new session 8.740
And all notifications have disappeared 6.668
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.663
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000