Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5960 19 Nov 2025, 12:35

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 30:36.791 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:2.364
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 1:48.812
And I update APT using apt 6.036
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.355
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.012
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 12.505
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.522
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.286
And persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:11.046
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 12.926
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.293
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.105
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.995
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.529
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.617
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:34.256
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.243
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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35.363
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 10.600
And the system is very low on memory 2.766
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.208
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.451
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.168
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.509
And I free up some memory 0.938
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.216
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.502
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.102
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:7.447
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 11.270
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.325
And all tps features are active 2.337
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.501
When I disable the first tps feature 2.673
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.046
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.690
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:39.452
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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15.210
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 9.498
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I disable the first tps feature 2.617
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 2.608
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.392
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 9.296
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.054
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 2.722
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.191
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
46.941
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 9.191
And the network is plugged 0.048
And Tor is ready 10.001
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.599
When I write some files expected to persist 1.384
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.846
# 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" 17.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:52.019
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 9.385
And the network is plugged 0.090
And Tor is ready 40.629
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.205
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.543
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.047
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 13.386
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.404
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.065
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.091
Tags: @product
42.841
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.031
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.272
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.167
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:22.140
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 10.852
When I enable persistence 11.429
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.034
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.978
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.552
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
When I cold reboot the computer 9.121
And the computer reboots Tails 1:2.694
Given I enable persistence 12.302
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.596
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.265
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:45.961
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 11.647
# 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 20.494
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.239
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:38.689
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 25.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.483
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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41.101
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 10.660
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.626
Then persistence is disabled 0.099
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.800
And all notifications have disappeared 9.569
When I delete the persistent partition 2.872
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.472
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:52.770
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 10.292
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.089
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.656
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:34.459
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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45.789
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.022
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 7.430
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.504
And all notifications have disappeared 9.497
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.518
And all tps features are enabled 2.410
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.138
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:55.512
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:17.666
And I enable persistence 22.984
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.718
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.645
And persistence is enabled 2.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.910
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.954
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.345
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.294
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 10.763
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.411
When I enable persistence 10.978
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.114
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.254
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 11.064
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.497
When I try to enable persistence 1.340
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.181
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.237
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.317
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.571
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 10.020
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.563
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I log in to a new session 11.118
And all notifications have disappeared 11.100
# 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" 0.255
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.472
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.258
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.820
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.846
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.063
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.881
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.320
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.760
When I log in to a new session 11.968
And all notifications have disappeared 9.659
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.805
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000