Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5934 06 Nov 2025, 08:29

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 36:15.892 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:44.893
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:29.370
And I update APT using apt 7.924
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.338
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.840
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 14.397
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.655
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.350
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:30.873
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 14.962
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.495
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.126
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.969
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.730
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.781
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:41.135
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.619
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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43.113
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 12.472
And the system is very low on memory 6.713
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.229
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.787
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.294
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.929
And I free up some memory 1.281
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.794
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:32.677
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 14.158
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.458
And all tps features are active 2.741
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.791
When I disable the first tps feature 4.117
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.467
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.914
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:50.318
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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18.124
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 11.581
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.111
When I disable the first tps feature 3.202
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.092
When I enable the first tps feature 2.678
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.030
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 10.136
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.117
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 3.277
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.338
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.909
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 10.496
And the network is plugged 0.142
And Tor is ready 13.947
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.627
When I write some files expected to persist 1.643
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.683
# 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" 19.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.475
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:34.464
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 10.654
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 12.534
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.184
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.149
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.019
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 15.031
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.438
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.106
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.063
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59.528
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 13.705
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.120
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.962
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 26.740
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.518
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:0.801
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.484
When I enable persistence 24.250
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.454
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.210
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.717
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 17.976
And the computer reboots Tails 1:10.469
Given I enable persistence 11.727
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.550
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.607
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.027
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3:31.412
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.020
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 18.330
# 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 36.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.951
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:1.955
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
55.120
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 13.118
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.209
Then persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.405
And all notifications have disappeared 11.893
When I delete the persistent partition 2.945
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.155
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.759
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.675
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.912
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.712
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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1:2.276
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.275
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.375
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.358
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.927
And all notifications have disappeared 9.710
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.684
And all tps features are enabled 2.565
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:29.011
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 5:44.030
And I enable persistence 29.364
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.358
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.629
And persistence is enabled 2.628
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.135
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.137
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.116
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.937
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 11.640
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.713
When I enable persistence 11.806
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.091
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.836
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 11.076
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.116
When I try to enable persistence 1.461
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.807
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.316
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.351
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.084
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.357
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.382
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 10.277
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 1.397
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.075
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 15.882
And all notifications have disappeared 10.504
# 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" 0.252
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.640
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.444
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.154
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.366
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 10.329
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.566
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.336
When I try to enable persistence 1.321
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.426
When I log in to a new session 14.508
And all notifications have disappeared 10.913
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.636
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.433
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000