Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5954 15 Nov 2025, 02:50

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 33:39.748 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:14.055
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:59.051
And I update APT using apt 7.564
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.273
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.180
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 13.077
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.010
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.303
And persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:25.747
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 13.980
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.445
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.140
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.671
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.572
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.914
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:35.742
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.222
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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38.039
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 11.083
And the system is very low on memory 4.862
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.237
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.083
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.128
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.599
And I free up some memory 1.133
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.395
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.882
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:19.979
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 13.791
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.479
And all tps features are active 2.226
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.260
When I disable the first tps feature 3.125
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.491
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.039
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.470
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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18.198
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 11.967
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.099
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.083
When I disable the first tps feature 3.158
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.057
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.040
When I enable the first tps feature 2.573
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.381
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 10.904
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.076
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.133
And I disable the first tps feature 3.117
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.098
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.982
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 10.288
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 14.265
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.696
When I write some files expected to persist 1.457
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.044
# 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" 18.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:32.562
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 10.466
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 11.312
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.261
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.283
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 15.263
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.390
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.095
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.074
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50.617
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 13.094
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.255
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.398
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.481
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:43.576
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 13.802
When I enable persistence 23.368
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.603
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.275
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.433
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 10.563
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.835
Given I enable persistence 14.087
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.555
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.688
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.192
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:54.275
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 12.425
# 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 29.209
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.443
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:40.213
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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49.393
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 11.616
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.972
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.756
And all notifications have disappeared 10.560
When I delete the persistent partition 2.863
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.500
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:5.147
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 12.502
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.080
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.148
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:41.177
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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1:1.126
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 12.237
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.390
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.158
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.633
And all notifications have disappeared 10.497
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.859
And all tps features are enabled 2.263
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.011
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:20.031
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 5:36.358
And I enable persistence 28.868
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.576
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.730
And persistence is enabled 2.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.260
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.726
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.738
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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36.096
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 11.704
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.643
When I enable persistence 10.131
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.547
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.569
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 11.091
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.966
When I try to enable persistence 1.444
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 1.205
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.385
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.352
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.757
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 10.767
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.409
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.976
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 11.590
And all notifications have disappeared 11.193
# 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" 0.220
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.564
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.458
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.045
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.768
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 10.507
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.349
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.390
When I try to enable persistence 1.441
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.824
When I log in to a new session 12.741
And all notifications have disappeared 11.086
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.304
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000