Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5933 05 Nov 2025, 14:31

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 32:59.055 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:7.399
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 1:52.699
And I update APT using apt 7.191
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.356
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.210
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 14.950
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.561
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.292
And persistence is disabled 0.149
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:22.047
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 13.840
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.395
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.793
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.660
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.855
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:35.098
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.224
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.827
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
37.571
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 10.933
And the system is very low on memory 5.181
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.227
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.499
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.134
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.530
And I free up some memory 1.034
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.402
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:18.600
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 13.510
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.366
And all tps features are active 2.090
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.578
When I disable the first tps feature 2.765
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.959
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.254
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.976
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
16.895
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 10.626
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 3.129
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.122
When I enable the first tps feature 2.571
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.801
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 10.185
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
And I disable the first tps feature 3.121
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.284
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.764
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 10.184
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 13.394
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.580
When I write some files expected to persist 1.391
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.637
# 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" 17.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:21.823
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 10.091
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 10.698
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.729
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.116
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 12.239
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.387
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.105
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
Tags: @product
51.313
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 12.970
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.105
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.153
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:43.385
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 13.886
When I enable persistence 24.971
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.928
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.754
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.503
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
When I cold reboot the computer 12.047
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.089
Given I enable persistence 9.799
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.526
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.527
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
2:47.002
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 11.256
# 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 28.938
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.239
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:36.741
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
47.010
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 10.281
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.498
Then persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.409
And all notifications have disappeared 10.295
When I delete the persistent partition 2.952
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.465
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.454
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 9.990
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.080
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.076
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.056
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.031
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56.544
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 9.969
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.054
When I try to enable persistence 1.390
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.930
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.354
And all notifications have disappeared 10.024
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.439
And all tps features are enabled 2.383
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:9.528
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 5:26.810
And I enable persistence 27.410
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.136
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.796
And persistence is enabled 2.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.233
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 9.930
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.569
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.403
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 12.105
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.479
When I enable persistence 12.360
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.665
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 9.839
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.856
When I try to enable persistence 1.465
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.862
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.536
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.314
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.324
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.018
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 9.761
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.480
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.775
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I log in to a new session 13.389
And all notifications have disappeared 9.916
# 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" 0.278
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.523
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.343
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.865
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.998
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:11.381
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 10.372
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 20.893
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.392
When I try to enable persistence 1.390
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.793
When I log in to a new session 17.780
And all notifications have disappeared 9.948
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.557
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000