Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5916 29 Oct 2025, 08:41

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 37:14.706 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:22.737
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:3.895
And I update APT using apt 10.866
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.884
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.923
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 15.441
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.386
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.389
And persistence is disabled 0.135
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:35.839
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 14.296
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.478
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.153
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 28.315
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.669
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.254
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.321
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.278
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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43.146
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 12.231
And the system is very low on memory 6.195
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.306
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.519
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.298
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.642
And I free up some memory 1.215
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:29.860
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 14.067
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.352
And all tps features are active 2.781
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.434
When I disable the first tps feature 3.230
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.664
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.008
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:47.703
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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19.024
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 12.576
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.140
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.158
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I disable the first tps feature 3.240
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.064
When I enable the first tps feature 2.570
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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16.955
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 10.253
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.109
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.098
And I disable the first tps feature 3.244
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.196
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.942
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 10.918
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 14.488
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.718
When I write some files expected to persist 1.397
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.696
# 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" 19.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:4.099
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 10.546
And the network is plugged 0.130
And Tor is ready 10.566
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.150
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.037
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.917
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 41.918
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.435
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.080
Tags: @product
56.673
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.022
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.718
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.139
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.368
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:52.535
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 14.269
When I enable persistence 22.848
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.918
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.359
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.024
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
When I cold reboot the computer 11.928
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.109
Given I enable persistence 14.284
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.543
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.906
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
Tags: @product
3:28.690
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 12.889
# 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 43.404
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.165
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:3.753
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
55.161
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 12.946
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.134
Then persistence is disabled 0.135
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.915
And all notifications have disappeared 12.213
When I delete the persistent partition 3.340
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.473
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:11.418
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 11.925
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.098
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.392
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:47.683
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:6.734
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 16.919
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.495
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.412
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.619
And all notifications have disappeared 11.281
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.479
And all tps features are enabled 2.468
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:58.405
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 6:1.290
And I enable persistence 39.890
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.095
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.849
And persistence is enabled 2.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.333
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 9.627
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 28.074
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.847
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 19.910
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.866
When I enable persistence 13.073
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.449
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 10.984
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 15.294
When I try to enable persistence 1.408
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.996
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.301
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.919
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.710
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.514
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.828
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 10.687
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.096
When I try to enable persistence 1.337
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.290
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 16.309
And all notifications have disappeared 11.931
# 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" 0.450
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.528
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.308
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.362
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.098
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 10.566
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.199
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.429
When I try to enable persistence 1.382
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.696
When I log in to a new session 14.196
And all notifications have disappeared 10.133
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.425
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000