Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5936 07 Nov 2025, 12:08

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 33:31.838 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:10.531
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 1:55.631
And I update APT using apt 7.199
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.427
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.994
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 13.353
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.834
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.298
And persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:26.722
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 14.315
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.452
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.129
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.854
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.634
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.072
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:36.012
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.198
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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39.439
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.107
And the system is very low on memory 5.312
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.181
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.553
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.165
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.590
And I free up some memory 1.372
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.566
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.953
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:20.801
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 12.833
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.542
And all tps features are active 2.188
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.288
When I disable the first tps feature 3.166
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.934
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.774
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.002
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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17.302
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 11.585
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.076
When I disable the first tps feature 2.740
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.055
When I enable the first tps feature 2.504
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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16.265
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 10.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I disable the first tps feature 2.803
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.113
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.975
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 10.211
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 14.599
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.618
When I write some files expected to persist 1.283
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.154
# 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" 18.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.874
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 10.171
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 11.865
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 10.655
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:41.256
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 12.939
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.476
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.076
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
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54.756
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 14.057
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.114
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.875
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.708
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:42.366
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 13.374
When I enable persistence 23.880
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.046
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.469
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.496
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.222
When I cold reboot the computer 12.366
And the computer reboots Tails 1:3.722
Given I enable persistence 12.637
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.548
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.393
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
3:7.360
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 12.498
# 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 33.301
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.406
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:51.343
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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50.527
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 10.804
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.106
Then persistence is disabled 0.149
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.560
And all notifications have disappeared 10.643
When I delete the persistent partition 2.870
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:58.906
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 10.814
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.074
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.821
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:36.935
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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56.631
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.367
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.115
When I try to enable persistence 1.419
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.146
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.968
And all notifications have disappeared 10.089
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.392
And all tps features are enabled 2.236
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:13.556
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 5:28.843
And I enable persistence 29.465
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.272
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.654
And persistence is enabled 2.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.676
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.831
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.331
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.801
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.320
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.588
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.615
When I enable persistence 10.772
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.324
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.752
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 13.212
When I try to enable persistence 1.377
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.790
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.261
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.298
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.382
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.176
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 10.025
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.291
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.557
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.345
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I log in to a new session 11.782
And all notifications have disappeared 12.471
# 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" 0.288
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.636
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.271
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.239
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.746
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 10.475
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.016
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.441
When I try to enable persistence 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.535
When I log in to a new session 11.771
And all notifications have disappeared 10.212
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.689
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000