Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5927 03 Nov 2025, 13:25

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 35:17.336 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:2.148
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 1:46.740
And I update APT using apt 7.905
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.305
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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34.713
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 10.139
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.831
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.341
And persistence is disabled 0.142
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.258
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:20.648
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 12.756
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.374
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.756
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.600
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.294
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:34.430
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.216
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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37.800
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 10.437
And the system is very low on memory 5.098
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.188
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.492
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.156
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.533
And I free up some memory 1.214
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.100
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.577
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:21.275
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 9.888
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.405
And all tps features are active 2.519
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.584
When I disable the first tps feature 3.191
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.110
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.168
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:47.098
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
16.327
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 10.085
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 3.216
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.077
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.202
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 9.696
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
And I disable the first tps feature 3.206
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.084
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.327
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 9.613
And the network is plugged 0.113
And Tor is ready 14.528
And I take note of which tps features are available 1.000
When I write some files expected to persist 1.371
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.405
# 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" 18.294
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.124
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 9.700
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 12.482
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.190
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.249
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.879
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 12.727
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.406
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.112
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.915
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
Tags: @product
50.064
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.382
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.123
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.576
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:38.502
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 9.672
When I enable persistence 22.596
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.237
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.286
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.677
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
When I cold reboot the computer 10.663
And the computer reboots Tails 1:3.363
Given I enable persistence 13.272
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.544
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.856
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
2:58.934
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 enabled and logged in 10.115
# 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 29.904
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.388
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:39.250
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 30.276
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
48.929
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 9.533
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.167
Then persistence is disabled 0.128
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.702
And all notifications have disappeared 10.924
When I delete the persistent partition 3.012
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:0.955
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 10.667
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.100
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.964
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.871
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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58.067
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 9.893
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 1.564
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.140
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.105
And all notifications have disappeared 10.277
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.371
And all tps features are enabled 2.426
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
8:34.206
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 7:45.786
And I enable persistence 32.362
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.056
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.673
And persistence is enabled 2.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.604
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 9.344
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.565
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.901
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 9.736
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.797
When I enable persistence 11.776
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.538
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.899
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 9.877
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.678
When I try to enable persistence 1.484
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.792
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.247
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.231
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.443
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 9.960
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.117
When I try to enable persistence 1.600
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.074
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.382
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I log in to a new session 12.864
And all notifications have disappeared 12.093
# 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" 0.245
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.547
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.354
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.953
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.258
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 10.184
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.054
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.506
When I try to enable persistence 1.451
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.410
When I log in to a new session 13.224
And all notifications have disappeared 9.982
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.267
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000