Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5949 13 Nov 2025, 08:38

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 37:12.902 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:25.107
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:8.153
And I update APT using apt 9.562
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.324
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.619
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.076
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 15.125
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.554
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
And persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:37.295
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 15.991
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.353
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.131
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.861
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.866
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.351
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:46.383
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.291
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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40.727
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 12.950
And the system is very low on memory 4.270
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.207
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.785
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.188
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.770
And I free up some memory 1.396
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.532
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.425
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:25.030
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 14.290
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.369
And all tps features are active 2.118
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.591
When I disable the first tps feature 3.429
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.189
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.336
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:45.950
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.756
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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17.876
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 10.698
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.071
When I disable the first tps feature 3.072
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.268
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.469
When I enable the first tps feature 2.971
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.458
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 10.978
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.099
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I disable the first tps feature 3.230
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.953
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.025
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.371
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 10.391
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 14.672
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.675
When I write some files expected to persist 1.409
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.818
# 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" 19.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:7.860
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 enabled and logged in 10.911
And the network is plugged 0.074
And Tor is ready 43.128
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.019
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.936
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 14.850
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.388
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.145
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
Tags: @product
57.145
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 13.010
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.234
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.176
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.724
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:58.195
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 13.232
When I enable persistence 27.410
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.600
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.680
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.431
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.172
When I cold reboot the computer 11.208
And the computer reboots Tails 1:10.270
Given I enable persistence 11.418
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.578
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.007
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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3:39.624
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.044
# 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 40.859
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.265
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:6.350
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 29.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.508
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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54.825
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 12.332
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.839
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.310
And all notifications have disappeared 11.900
When I delete the persistent partition 2.885
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:18.832
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 13.836
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.906
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:51.227
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.806
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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1:3.673
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.123
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.374
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.948
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.758
And all notifications have disappeared 11.057
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.491
And all tps features are enabled 2.539
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:55.703
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 6:3.323
And I enable persistence 33.036
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 16.024
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.753
And persistence is enabled 2.565
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.051
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 9.458
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.908
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.474
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 13.446
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.221
When I enable persistence 9.441
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.434
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 11.233
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.858
When I try to enable persistence 1.385
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.852
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.292
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.293
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.807
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 11.540
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.327
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.948
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.393
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.069
When I log in to a new session 14.077
And all notifications have disappeared 10.981
# 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" 0.320
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.737
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.408
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.360
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.330
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.842
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.259
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.332
When I try to enable persistence 1.366
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.095
When I log in to a new session 14.368
And all notifications have disappeared 9.520
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.141
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000