Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5913 27 Oct 2025, 20:27

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 157 0 0 0 0 157 21 0 21 35:15.675 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:14.802
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:58.979
And I update APT using apt 8.277
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.291
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.998
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 13.669
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.241
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.333
And persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:37.869
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 13.460
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.400
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.902
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.645
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.646
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:42.083
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.543
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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42.023
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 12.112
And the system is very low on memory 5.421
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.318
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.218
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.153
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.606
And I free up some memory 0.984
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.510
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:28.689
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.782
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.557
And all tps features are active 2.563
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.608
When I disable the first tps feature 3.263
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.009
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.517
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.058
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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18.400
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.470
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.111
When I disable the first tps feature 2.761
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 2.638
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.963
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.381
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 3.240
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.101
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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58.358
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.334
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 14.427
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.874
When I write some files expected to persist 1.529
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.429
# 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?
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 18.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:34.845
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.550
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 11.649
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.343
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:46.786
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 14.504
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.472
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.085
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59.223
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.232
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.122
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.507
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:51.912
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 13.466
When I enable persistence 25.257
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.864
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.331
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.325
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.204
When I cold reboot the computer 10.557
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.629
Given I enable persistence 14.325
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.556
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.122
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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3:5.110
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.140
# 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 30.564
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.733
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:44.763
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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52.299
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 10.348
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.519
Then persistence is disabled 0.199
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.762
And all notifications have disappeared 11.388
When I delete the persistent partition 3.457
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:10.470
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.272
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.058
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:46.360
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:1.176
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 10.786
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.467
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.104
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.913
And all notifications have disappeared 10.833
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.407
And all tps features are enabled 2.418
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.749
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:26.141
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
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 5:40.287
And I enable persistence 29.462
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.303
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.652
And persistence is enabled 2.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.874
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
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 9.989
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.202
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.633
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.873
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.131
When I enable persistence 14.373
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.093
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.994
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.567
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.525
When I try to enable persistence 1.445
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.956
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.239
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.309
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.593
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 10.479
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.063
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I log in to a new session 13.699
And all notifications have disappeared 11.458
# 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" 0.297
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.630
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.358
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.652
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.293
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 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 10.534
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.942
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.480
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.630
When I log in to a new session 13.145
And all notifications have disappeared 9.542
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.325
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000