Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5969 26 Nov 2025, 09:02

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 35:36.853 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:21.315
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:5.590
And I update APT using apt 8.330
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.376
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.438
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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47.606
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 17.957
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.933
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.332
And persistence is disabled 0.147
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:40.425
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 15.049
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.387
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.949
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.796
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.586
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.259
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.214
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.256
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
Tags: @product
42.732
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 12.127
And the system is very low on memory 4.896
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.395
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.796
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.162
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.608
And I free up some memory 1.193
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.859
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:32.027
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 12.451
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.537
And all tps features are active 3.166
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.925
When I disable the first tps feature 3.277
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.291
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.982
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.148
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
17.857
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 11.558
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.120
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.080
When I disable the first tps feature 3.122
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.597
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
18.445
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 11.673
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.070
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 3.379
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.165
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.003
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 11.687
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 14.647
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.826
When I write some files expected to persist 1.534
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.551
# 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" 18.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:34.520
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 10.805
And the network is plugged 0.079
And Tor is ready 11.526
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.201
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.078
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:45.995
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 13.928
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.517
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.105
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.073
Tags: @product
56.886
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 12.890
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.115
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 21.111
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.846
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:49.266
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 12.920
When I enable persistence 21.245
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.081
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.154
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 32.577
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
When I cold reboot the computer 12.443
And the computer reboots Tails 1:7.807
Given I enable persistence 13.874
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.693
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.116
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
3:5.234
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.036
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 13.456
# 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 33.426
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.634
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:46.026
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.474
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
Tags: @product
53.440
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.951
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.139
Then persistence is disabled 0.159
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.711
And all notifications have disappeared 11.310
When I delete the persistent partition 3.471
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.957
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 11.340
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.094
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.860
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:50.353
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:4.655
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 12.200
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.090
When I try to enable persistence 1.377
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.540
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.589
And all notifications have disappeared 10.000
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.978
And all tps features are enabled 2.343
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.534
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:30.887
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 5:43.569
And I enable persistence 30.748
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.715
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.637
And persistence is enabled 2.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.597
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.210
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 10.208
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.117
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.883
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.680
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 11.248
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.662
When I enable persistence 13.176
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.093
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.499
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.907
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 10.544
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.870
When I try to enable persistence 1.420
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.545
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.428
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.090
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.321
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.236
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 10.427
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.031
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.321
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I log in to a new session 15.225
And all notifications have disappeared 10.765
# 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" 0.351
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.708
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.526
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.291
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.556
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 10.205
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.417
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.338
When I try to enable persistence 1.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.219
When I log in to a new session 14.295
And all notifications have disappeared 10.554
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.845
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000