Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5919 30 Oct 2025, 12:50

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 38:21.895 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:26.023
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:6.713
And I update APT using apt 8.833
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.430
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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52.729
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 22.343
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.523
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.415
And persistence is disabled 0.338
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:33.644
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 13.353
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.494
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.138
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.935
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.626
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.925
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:41.486
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.583
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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45.296
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 logged in 11.246
And the system is very low on memory 5.741
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.558
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.717
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.222
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.576
And I free up some memory 1.296
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.265
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:25.848
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 13.693
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.379
And all tps features are active 2.663
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.607
When I disable the first tps feature 3.129
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.825
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:47.161
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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19.443
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 11.809
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I disable the first tps feature 2.833
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 4.240
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.106
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 10.915
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.776
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.201
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.726
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 10.752
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 14.206
And I take note of which tps features are available 1.065
When I write some files expected to persist 1.718
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.825
# 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" 19.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:29.611
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 9.940
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 10.458
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.165
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.963
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.915
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 13.248
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.459
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.091
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
57.618
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.237
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.118
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.619
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:47.532
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 13.571
When I enable persistence 21.023
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.022
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.012
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.135
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
When I cold reboot the computer 12.498
And the computer reboots Tails 1:6.000
Given I enable persistence 12.500
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.637
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.762
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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3:15.011
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 12.847
# 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 36.423
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.636
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:54.798
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
53.905
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 11.339
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.571
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.418
And all notifications have disappeared 11.030
When I delete the persistent partition 4.772
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.668
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.538
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 22.560
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 15.294
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:12.727
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:10.434
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 17.383
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.401
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.384
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.569
And all notifications have disappeared 10.187
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.908
And all tps features are enabled 3.097
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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8:12.391
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 7:10.532
And I enable persistence 44.851
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.139
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.809
And persistence is enabled 4.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.538
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
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 10.080
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.802
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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57.492
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 23.887
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.093
When I enable persistence 16.837
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.194
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 11.350
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.574
When I try to enable persistence 1.506
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.630
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.302
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.286
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.838
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 11.502
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.096
When I try to enable persistence 1.321
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.781
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.047
When I log in to a new session 13.431
And all notifications have disappeared 12.144
# 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" 0.209
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.516
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.365
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.880
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.969
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 11.016
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.368
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.439
When I try to enable persistence 1.430
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.365
When I log in to a new session 13.808
And all notifications have disappeared 9.856
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.442
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000