Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5939 09 Nov 2025, 12:06

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 32:59.152 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:11.174
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 1:55.953
And I update APT using apt 6.985
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.389
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.679
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 13.386
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.523
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.323
And persistence is disabled 0.121
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:25.282
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 13.555
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.480
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.195
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.183
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.614
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.505
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:36.428
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.245
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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38.765
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 11.160
And the system is very low on memory 5.195
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.467
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.732
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.126
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.537
And I free up some memory 1.043
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.886
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.357
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:17.605
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 12.430
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.344
And all tps features are active 2.132
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.445
When I disable the first tps feature 2.703
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.966
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.102
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:42.250
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
16.984
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 10.827
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.083
When I disable the first tps feature 3.145
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.058
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.540
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.503
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 10.054
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 3.152
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.115
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.996
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.722
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 10.259
And the network is plugged 0.065
And Tor is ready 13.916
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.686
When I write some files expected to persist 1.374
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.212
# 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" 18.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.612
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 10.436
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 11.448
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.138
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.802
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.857
And I capture all network traffic 0.021
And the network is plugged 0.079
And Tor is ready 13.090
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.392
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.066
Tags: @product
49.943
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.364
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.103
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.175
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:43.508
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.028
When I enable persistence 23.295
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.489
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.428
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.904
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.182
When I cold reboot the computer 10.414
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.184
Given I enable persistence 12.521
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.540
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.388
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
2:51.000
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 11.087
# 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 28.659
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.343
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:40.794
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
Tags: @product
50.485
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 11.537
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.117
Then persistence is disabled 0.162
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.937
And all notifications have disappeared 10.720
When I delete the persistent partition 3.596
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.934
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:0.260
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 10.958
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.060
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.556
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:39.442
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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58.460
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 11.020
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.602
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.382
And all notifications have disappeared 10.186
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.464
And all tps features are enabled 2.404
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:52.625
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 5:9.541
And I enable persistence 28.275
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.829
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.756
And persistence is enabled 2.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.225
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.612
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 9.375
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.519
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.210
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 12.496
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.018
When I enable persistence 9.443
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
44.298
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 11.676
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 16.488
When I try to enable persistence 1.474
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 7.862
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 2.342
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.567
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.309
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.648
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.208
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 10.047
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.681
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.338
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 14.140
And all notifications have disappeared 10.414
# 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" 0.276
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.500
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.247
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.916
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.224
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.209
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.031
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.080
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.481
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.433
When I try to enable persistence 1.361
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.904
When I log in to a new session 12.889
And all notifications have disappeared 8.989
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.933
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000