Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5966 24 Nov 2025, 12:43

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 35:50.030 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:18.824
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 2:3.188
And I update APT using apt 7.440
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.607
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.588
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.875
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.891
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 13.323
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.993
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.405
And persistence is disabled 0.145
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.023
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:36.229
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 14.279
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.407
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.108
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.168
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.602
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.272
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.733
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.583
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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42.813
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 11.217
And the system is very low on memory 5.636
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.352
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.916
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.126
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.547
And I free up some memory 1.006
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.308
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:38.198
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 12.147
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.514
And all tps features are active 2.460
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.699
When I disable the first tps feature 3.143
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.122
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.511
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.199
Then all tps features but the first one are active 14.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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20.310
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 10.147
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.134
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.119
When I disable the first tps feature 3.263
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.128
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.064
When I enable the first tps feature 6.196
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.261
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 persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.657
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 3.247
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.147
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.100
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 9.930
And the network is plugged 0.161
And Tor is ready 14.956
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.602
When I write some files expected to persist 1.720
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.943
# 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" 19.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:34.085
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 9.726
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 11.691
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.172
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.186
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:50.008
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.188
And Tor is ready 13.282
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.402
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.117
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.212
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
Tags: @product
56.639
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.799
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.136
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 20.098
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:53.677
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 13.610
When I enable persistence 23.077
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.579
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.400
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 32.619
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.160
When I cold reboot the computer 11.501
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.659
Given I enable persistence 13.557
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.734
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.582
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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3:32.659
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 13.667
# 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 39.504
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.651
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:6.686
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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55.907
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 13.967
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.855
Then persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.086
And all notifications have disappeared 12.244
When I delete the persistent partition 4.176
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.459
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:8.741
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 11.799
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.098
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.112
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:46.349
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.033
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1:3.229
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.024
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 create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.044
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.770
And all notifications have disappeared 9.907
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.416
And all tps features are enabled 2.795
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:27.343
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:39.706
And I enable persistence 31.643
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.079
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.615
And persistence is enabled 2.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.523
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.895
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.908
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.207
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 11.445
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.851
When I enable persistence 11.250
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.877
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 10.001
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.426
When I try to enable persistence 1.347
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.647
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.274
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.272
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.259
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.349
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.541
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 10.055
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.072
When I try to enable persistence 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.078
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.310
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I log in to a new session 13.785
And all notifications have disappeared 11.615
# 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" 0.275
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.657
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.330
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.675
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.966
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 10.343
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.457
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.402
When I try to enable persistence 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.913
When I log in to a new session 15.107
And all notifications have disappeared 9.230
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.847
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000