Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5930 04 Nov 2025, 12:34

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 33:11.932 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:11.905
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 1:57.931
And I update APT using apt 6.349
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.322
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.637
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 13.046
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.381
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.356
And persistence is disabled 0.137
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:24.070
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 13.358
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.475
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.117
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.541
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.650
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.979
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:34.628
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.227
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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38.110
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 10.672
And the system is very low on memory 5.029
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.214
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.796
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.152
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.507
And I free up some memory 1.022
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.118
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:18.054
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 12.737
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.439
And all tps features are active 2.408
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.410
When I disable the first tps feature 3.158
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.014
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.726
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:41.019
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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17.476
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 11.229
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.100
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I disable the first tps feature 3.199
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.074
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.052
When I enable the first tps feature 2.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.354
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 9.711
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.745
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.679
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.855
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 9.809
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 13.391
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.646
When I write some files expected to persist 1.336
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.664
# 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" 17.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.790
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 9.834
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 10.947
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.951
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.794
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 13.331
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.404
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
Tags: @product
51.771
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.945
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.116
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.151
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.711
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:38.033
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 13.125
When I enable persistence 24.330
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.250
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.505
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.960
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.197
When I cold reboot the computer 7.949
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.219
Given I enable persistence 10.409
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.557
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.344
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:9.319
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 13.643
# 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 36.981
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.147
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:50.338
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
50.903
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 11.831
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.596
Then persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.408
And all notifications have disappeared 10.545
When I delete the persistent partition 2.971
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.369
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 10.756
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.887
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:39.959
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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58.168
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 10.605
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.882
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.790
And all notifications have disappeared 9.480
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.463
And all tps features are enabled 2.421
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:57.496
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 5:14.533
And I enable persistence 27.846
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.115
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.628
And persistence is enabled 2.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.273
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 9.472
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.119
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.174
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 12.007
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.591
When I enable persistence 9.967
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.050
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.028
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 11.056
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.508
When I try to enable persistence 1.393
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.710
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.323
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.280
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.819
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 9.831
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.839
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.313
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I log in to a new session 12.573
And all notifications have disappeared 11.050
# 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" 0.237
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.554
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.451
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.294
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.318
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 9.725
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 17.273
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.324
When I try to enable persistence 1.351
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 6.401
When I log in to a new session 11.928
And all notifications have disappeared 9.524
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.524
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000