Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5942 11 Nov 2025, 08:39

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 36:39.064 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:24.554
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:6.101
And I update APT using apt 7.872
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.442
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.644
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 13.295
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.367
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.458
And persistence is disabled 0.157
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:38.200
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 logged in 16.287
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.437
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.049
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.642
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.760
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.629
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.222
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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42.154
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 logged in 12.065
And the system is very low on memory 5.491
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.317
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.687
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.210
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.962
And I free up some memory 1.667
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.043
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:33.679
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 13.831
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.385
And all tps features are active 2.919
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.287
When I disable the first tps feature 3.307
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.945
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.180
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:52.192
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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17.665
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 enabled and logged in 11.041
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.346
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.173
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I disable the first tps feature 3.184
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.060
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.627
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.831
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 10.143
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.120
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I disable the first tps feature 3.240
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.166
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.820
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 10.205
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 14.981
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.816
When I write some files expected to persist 1.604
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.658
# 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" 19.490
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:33.715
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 10.380
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 12.916
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.176
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:45.062
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.065
And Tor is ready 12.786
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.806
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.084
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.060
Tags: @product
57.442
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.052
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.156
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.285
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:4.012
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 14.027
When I enable persistence 28.262
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.271
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.659
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.666
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
When I cold reboot the computer 12.732
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.537
Given I enable persistence 19.161
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.564
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.817
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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3:38.733
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 14.173
# 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 48.709
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.676
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:3.025
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
55.186
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.614
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.446
Then persistence is disabled 0.177
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 9.059
And all notifications have disappeared 11.188
When I delete the persistent partition 3.090
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.039
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.180
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 10.897
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.188
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:50.704
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:8.108
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 11.110
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.380
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 22.128
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 15.683
And all notifications have disappeared 10.186
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.892
And all tps features are enabled 3.320
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:28.204
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:33.143
And I enable persistence 37.978
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.220
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.619
And persistence is enabled 2.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.824
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.651
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 26.563
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
45.390
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 12.144
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 17.228
When I enable persistence 12.863
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.426
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 11.260
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.231
When I try to enable persistence 1.350
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.386
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.217
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.288
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.338
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:4.908
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 11.377
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.353
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.241
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I log in to a new session 13.882
And all notifications have disappeared 14.663
# 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" 0.400
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.653
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.761
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.852
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.301
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.356
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.380
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 10.571
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.413
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.356
When I try to enable persistence 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.088
When I log in to a new session 14.577
And all notifications have disappeared 10.877
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.701
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000