Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5944 12 Nov 2025, 02:31

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 36:0.325 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:22.510
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 2:3.967
And I update APT using apt 7.543
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.796
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.742
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.842
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.427
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.917
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.377
And persistence is disabled 0.143
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:39.053
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 13.779
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.499
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.156
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.446
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.656
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.029
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.797
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.623
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.244
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
Tags: @product
40.545
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 11.320
And the system is very low on memory 5.445
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.258
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.710
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.183
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.578
And I free up some memory 1.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.357
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:26.194
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 14.088
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.524
And all tps features are active 2.599
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.458
When I disable the first tps feature 3.114
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.140
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.756
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.202
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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20.708
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 13.894
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I disable the first tps feature 3.151
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.064
When I enable the first tps feature 2.667
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.458
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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18.453
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 11.484
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.124
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I disable the first tps feature 3.297
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.231
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.151
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 10.766
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 15.830
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.621
When I write some files expected to persist 1.479
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.277
# 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" 20.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:35.414
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 11.216
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 12.049
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.139
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.770
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:47.915
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 13.449
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.434
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.083
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.077
Tags: @product
55.450
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.975
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.918
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.680
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:59.461
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 15.016
When I enable persistence 23.834
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.415
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 43.233
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 33.848
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.186
When I cold reboot the computer 10.485
And the computer reboots Tails 1:10.180
Given I enable persistence 13.378
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.723
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.972
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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3:41.857
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 19.072
# 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 30.740
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.779
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:8.258
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 35.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.521
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.091
Tags: @product
53.181
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.144
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.025
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.778
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.434
And all notifications have disappeared 11.403
When I delete the persistent partition 2.936
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:7.642
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 11.700
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.109
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.971
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:45.196
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.788
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:1.468
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 10.703
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.080
When I try to enable persistence 1.340
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.553
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.859
And all notifications have disappeared 10.175
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.497
And all tps features are enabled 3.019
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:24.143
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 5:33.828
And I enable persistence 32.331
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.596
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.852
And persistence is enabled 2.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.438
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 9.375
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.360
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.351
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 12.278
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.050
When I enable persistence 10.044
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.076
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.367
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.386
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 10.955
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.607
When I try to enable persistence 1.501
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.473
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.283
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.074
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.363
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.860
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.135
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 10.502
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.089
When I try to enable persistence 1.374
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.825
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.329
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I log in to a new session 14.719
And all notifications have disappeared 9.813
# 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" 0.274
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.637
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.419
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.755
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.934
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.264
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.299
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.434
When I try to enable persistence 1.346
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.206
When I log in to a new session 14.881
And all notifications have disappeared 9.547
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.421
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.532
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000