Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5935 06 Nov 2025, 14:23

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 40:14.909 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:19.395
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:4.349
And I update APT using apt 7.050
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.383
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.612
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.989
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 14.112
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.950
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
And persistence is disabled 0.145
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.234
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.987
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 13.768
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.412
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.147
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.456
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.544
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.626
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:36.752
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.217
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.083
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44.294
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.684
And the system is very low on memory 5.053
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.217
When I try to create a persistent partition 9.596
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.119
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.667
And I free up some memory 1.596
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.940
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.418
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:29.892
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 14.223
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.885
And all tps features are active 2.641
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.699
When I disable the first tps feature 3.214
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.276
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.355
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:49.314
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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26.118
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 18.816
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.081
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.070
When I disable the first tps feature 3.268
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.077
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 3.481
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.122
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.658
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 10.706
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.102
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 3.143
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.461
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.067
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.969
And the network is plugged 0.065
And Tor is ready 44.337
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.689
When I write some files expected to persist 1.390
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.881
# 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" 18.732
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:40.221
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.619
And the network is plugged 0.118
And Tor is ready 11.177
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.236
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.801
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:50.769
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.909
And Tor is ready 13.838
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.441
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.115
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
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57.445
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.146
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.140
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.191
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:53.699
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 13.348
When I enable persistence 27.397
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.557
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.228
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.552
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 11.451
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.210
Given I enable persistence 14.229
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.567
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.769
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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3:0.817
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 13.737
# 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 31.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.847
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:44.046
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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54.564
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 12.115
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.675
Then persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.131
And all notifications have disappeared 11.298
When I delete the persistent partition 3.567
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.912
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.545
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.056
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:49.921
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:1.831
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 12.340
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.106
When I try to enable persistence 1.345
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.834
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.620
And all notifications have disappeared 9.939
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.351
And all tps features are enabled 2.304
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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10:19.793
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.021
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 9:16.176
And I enable persistence 47.515
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.942
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.761
And persistence is enabled 2.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.943
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 9.922
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.234
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.931
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 14.817
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.741
When I enable persistence 12.178
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 4.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.703
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 18.453
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.414
When I try to enable persistence 1.536
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.081
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.314
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.357
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:15.782
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 23.370
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 17.897
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 15.920
And all notifications have disappeared 9.293
# 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" 0.267
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.751
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.866
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.375
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.371
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.857
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 10.612
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.126
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.411
When I try to enable persistence 1.524
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.884
When I log in to a new session 14.187
And all notifications have disappeared 9.042
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.464
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000