Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_web-release-7.14 3 29 Sep 2026, 18:21

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 25:27.260 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:47.616
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 1:33.600
And I update the APT lists using apt 6.786
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.299
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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30.308
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 9.488
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.420
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:40.518
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 9.209
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.409
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.024
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.469
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.064
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.152
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.008
Tags: @product
30.581
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 8.272
And the system is very low on memory 4.591
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.246
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.593
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.089
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.356
And I free up some memory 0.442
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.944
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:1.233
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 9.115
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
And all tps features are active 9.321
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.226
When I disable the first tps feature 3.124
Then all tps features but the first one are active 8.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.920
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.928
Then all tps features but the first one are active 9.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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14.140
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 8.446
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.143
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.711
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.073
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.062
When I enable the first tps feature 2.430
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
13.785
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 8.148
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
And I disable the first tps feature 2.577
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.897
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
43.781
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 7.860
And the network is plugged 0.035
And Tor is ready 9.753
And I take note of which tps features are available 7.338
When I write some files expected to persist 1.089
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.481
# 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" 12.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:45.374
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.229
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 10.385
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.554
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.435
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.033
And Tor is ready 10.999
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.407
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.041
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.043
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42.550
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 9.158
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.416
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:56.891
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 8.563
When I enable persistence 24.753
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.748
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.655
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.347
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.360
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.689
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 23.904
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
When I cold reboot the computer 6.039
And the computer reboots Tails 33.625
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.213
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.211
Given I enable persistence 13.007
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.056
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.134
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.303
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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2:10.178
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 8.541
# 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 28.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.813
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:6.610
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.029
Tags: @product
41.133
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 9.552
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.626
Then persistence is disabled 0.085
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.878
And all notifications have disappeared 9.056
When I delete the persistent partition 2.622
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:20.829
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 8.685
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.049
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.360
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.545
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.012
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1:0.236
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 9.052
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.192
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.815
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.541
And all notifications have disappeared 7.806
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.339
And all tps features are enabled 8.906
And all tps features but the first one are active 8.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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3:45.043
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 2:46.149
And I enable persistence 31.326
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.327
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.564
And persistence is enabled 18.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
32.355
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 7.534
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.207
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
46.214
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 9.773
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.274
When I enable persistence 14.565
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 8.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
33.364
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 8.515
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.265
When I try to enable persistence 1.238
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.446
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.250
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.174
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.042
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.103
Then persistence is successfully enabled 5.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.354
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 8.496
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.168
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.638
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.154
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.033
When I log in to a new session 9.459
And all notifications have disappeared 8.672
# 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" 0.207
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.077
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.230
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.291
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.767
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 8.243
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.914
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.380
When I try to enable persistence 1.198
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.298
When I log in to a new session 10.082
And all notifications have disappeared 9.495
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.220
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.935
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000