Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5915 28 Oct 2025, 14:33

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 36:11.212 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:59.233
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:43.242
And I update APT using apt 8.068
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.510
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.763
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.974
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.702
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.812
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.337
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.498
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 13.167
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.348
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.137
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.135
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.800
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.559
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.057
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.224
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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46.028
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 11.006
And the system is very low on memory 5.912
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.251
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.369
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.309
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.584
And I free up some memory 1.068
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.833
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:36.272
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 17.415
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.537
And all tps features are active 4.517
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.975
When I disable the first tps feature 3.220
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.293
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.384
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:49.411
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.515
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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17.855
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 11.554
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.097
When I disable the first tps feature 3.224
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.583
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.287
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.233
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 12.088
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 3.180
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.737
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.567
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 10.962
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 13.802
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.690
When I write some files expected to persist 1.683
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.626
# 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" 18.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:31.523
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 10.442
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 11.338
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.972
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.924
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 12.828
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.439
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.083
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52.588
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.083
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.132
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.225
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:41.227
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.607
When I enable persistence 24.628
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.041
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.457
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.299
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 7.436
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.646
Given I enable persistence 13.347
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.538
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.839
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:52.358
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 12.186
# 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 29.364
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.417
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:43.388
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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50.347
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 10.845
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.555
Then persistence is disabled 0.134
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.736
And all notifications have disappeared 10.725
When I delete the persistent partition 2.891
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:6.670
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 11.473
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.953
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:46.888
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:0.696
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.598
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.074
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.826
And all notifications have disappeared 9.772
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.928
And all tps features are enabled 2.702
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.440
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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8:26.634
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7:39.347
And I enable persistence 31.429
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.842
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.737
And persistence is enabled 2.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.775
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 9.401
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.702
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.672
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.586
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.577
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.769
When I enable persistence 13.500
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.086
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.124
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.974
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.418
When I try to enable persistence 1.377
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.951
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.480
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.100
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.257
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.744
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.004
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.067
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.083
When I log in to a new session 15.086
And all notifications have disappeared 9.942
# 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" 0.232
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.526
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.427
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.394
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.271
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.727
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.695
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.443
When I try to enable persistence 1.299
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.928
When I log in to a new session 13.311
And all notifications have disappeared 9.103
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.541
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.220
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.431
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000