Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5945 12 Nov 2025, 08:22

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 34:12.764 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:13.735
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.005
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:58.124
And I update APT using apt 8.107
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.302
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.628
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.840
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.643
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
And persistence is disabled 0.145
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.477
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:27.747
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 logged in 13.292
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.408
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.141
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.040
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.707
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.940
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:36.936
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.223
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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39.931
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 11.061
And the system is very low on memory 6.418
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.286
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.369
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.198
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.608
And I free up some memory 0.943
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.471
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:15.695
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 13.248
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.439
And all tps features are active 2.183
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.328
When I disable the first tps feature 2.680
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.015
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.164
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:39.680
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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17.634
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 11.349
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.110
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.085
When I disable the first tps feature 3.113
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.083
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.599
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.736
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.460
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 10.528
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 3.370
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.359
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.480
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 12.017
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 14.586
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.602
When I write some files expected to persist 1.491
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.564
# 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" 18.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:57.316
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 10.517
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 11.924
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.153
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.936
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.839
And I capture all network traffic 0.036
And the network is plugged 0.092
And Tor is ready 41.939
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.495
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
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50.449
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 12.636
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 16.537
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.622
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:43.473
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 13.866
When I enable persistence 25.931
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.204
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.533
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.864
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.192
When I cold reboot the computer 10.558
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.564
Given I enable persistence 11.231
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.614
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.751
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:53.207
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 13.485
# 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 29.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.831
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:38.306
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
49.629
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 11.558
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.197
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.946
And all notifications have disappeared 10.468
When I delete the persistent partition 2.902
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:58.713
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 10.363
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.096
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.987
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.018
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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57.906
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.608
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.151
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.822
And all notifications have disappeared 9.783
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.375
And all tps features are enabled 2.766
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:13.535
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 5:27.525
And I enable persistence 31.243
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.899
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.698
And persistence is enabled 2.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.574
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 9.635
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.014
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.869
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 14.868
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.636
When I enable persistence 12.874
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.420
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.266
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 10.622
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.522
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.707
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.342
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.339
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.319
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.382
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 10.321
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.077
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.039
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 13.157
And all notifications have disappeared 11.186
# 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" 0.278
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.666
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.554
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.206
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:8.124
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 9.909
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 24.149
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.417
When I try to enable persistence 1.403
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.511
When I log in to a new session 12.313
And all notifications have disappeared 10.761
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.373
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000