Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5926 03 Nov 2025, 08:33

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 35:26.709 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:4.441
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:46.362
And I update APT using apt 9.945
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.996
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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33.481
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 9.680
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.629
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:19.205
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 11.850
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.368
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.129
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.930
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.586
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.462
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:34.603
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.214
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.978
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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37.452
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 9.766
And the system is very low on memory 5.473
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.239
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.865
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.155
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.623
And I free up some memory 0.957
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.840
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.868
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 10.071
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.400
And all tps features are active 2.359
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.340
When I disable the first tps feature 3.145
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.207
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.331
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:33.810
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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15.801
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 9.901
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I disable the first tps feature 2.768
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.095
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 2.619
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 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.279
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 10.225
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 2.726
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.109
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.607
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 10.058
And the network is plugged 0.088
And Tor is ready 14.639
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.711
When I write some files expected to persist 1.610
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.748
# 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" 17.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:24.808
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 10.043
And the network is plugged 0.104
And Tor is ready 10.738
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.169
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.836
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.763
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.110
And Tor is ready 13.342
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.395
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.086
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
Tags: @product
51.240
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 11.871
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.101
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.801
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.466
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:34.359
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 10.237
When I enable persistence 21.595
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.908
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.046
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.146
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
When I cold reboot the computer 10.563
And the computer reboots Tails 1:2.746
Given I enable persistence 12.695
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.538
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.556
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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2:46.600
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 10.140
# 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 28.978
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.164
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:37.883
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
48.079
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 10.590
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.693
Then persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.917
And all notifications have disappeared 9.904
When I delete the persistent partition 3.408
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.446
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:0.671
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 9.947
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.090
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.848
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:39.460
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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56.795
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 9.781
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.334
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.299
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.144
And all notifications have disappeared 9.625
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.392
And all tps features are enabled 2.737
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.411
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
9:21.325
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8:37.899
And I enable persistence 27.666
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.552
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.701
And persistence is enabled 2.506
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.226
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.495
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 9.491
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.257
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.056
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 10.142
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.931
When I enable persistence 12.715
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.096
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.394
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 9.538
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.785
When I try to enable persistence 1.353
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.575
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.283
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.214
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.483
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 9.860
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.655
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.261
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.041
When I log in to a new session 12.999
And all notifications have disappeared 11.023
# 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" 0.253
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.549
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.291
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.067
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.257
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 10.008
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.294
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.432
When I try to enable persistence 1.402
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.492
When I log in to a new session 12.914
And all notifications have disappeared 9.921
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.499
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000