Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5931 05 Nov 2025, 08:27

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 32:24.537 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:9.720
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 1:53.418
And I update APT using apt 8.195
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.385
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.739
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.752
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 12.625
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.246
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.294
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:23.343
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.946
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.495
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.102
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.539
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.414
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:32.424
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.220
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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36.608
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 10.600
And the system is very low on memory 5.139
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.262
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.529
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.131
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.535
And I free up some memory 0.975
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.877
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:13.561
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 12.142
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.454
And all tps features are active 2.168
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.228
When I disable the first tps feature 2.802
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.149
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.432
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.139
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
15.671
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 9.948
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.707
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.067
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.542
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.651
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.458
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 9.515
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.731
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.014
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.616
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 9.405
And the network is plugged 0.096
And Tor is ready 40.171
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.622
When I write some files expected to persist 1.363
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.567
# 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" 17.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:19.119
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 9.510
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 10.006
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.182
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.692
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:35.965
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 12.009
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.369
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.070
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.028
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.084
Tags: @product
48.061
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.533
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.180
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.790
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:37.309
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 12.867
When I enable persistence 22.609
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.457
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.711
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.545
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.211
When I cold reboot the computer 11.771
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.088
Given I enable persistence 12.116
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.528
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.223
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.909
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:42.631
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 11.301
# 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 28.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.248
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:34.750
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
49.293
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 12.318
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.190
Then persistence is disabled 0.103
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.339
And all notifications have disappeared 10.139
When I delete the persistent partition 2.755
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.790
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 11.102
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.091
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.683
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.666
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
59.960
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 12.087
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.864
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.383
And all notifications have disappeared 9.638
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.339
And all tps features are enabled 2.419
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:55.738
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 5:15.780
And I enable persistence 26.925
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.259
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.644
And persistence is enabled 2.127
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.413
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 9.174
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.577
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.662
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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35.838
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 11.430
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.697
When I enable persistence 10.304
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.500
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 10.030
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.094
When I try to enable persistence 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.226
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.214
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.048
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.306
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.531
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 9.808
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.122
When I try to enable persistence 1.315
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.392
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.244
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I log in to a new session 13.078
And all notifications have disappeared 8.967
# 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 0.087
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.216
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.848
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.615
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 10.328
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.739
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.366
When I try to enable persistence 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.847
When I log in to a new session 11.279
And all notifications have disappeared 10.462
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.226
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000