Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5970 26 Nov 2025, 13:54

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 30:11.748 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:0.472
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 1:47.726
And I update APT using apt 5.476
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.319
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.477
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 12.407
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.803
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.330
And persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.885
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:16.233
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 13.050
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.324
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.519
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.555
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.660
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:35.740
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.208
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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34.027
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 10.356
And the system is very low on memory 1.068
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.184
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.884
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.203
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.524
And I free up some memory 0.973
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.145
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:10.087
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 12.026
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.372
And all tps features are active 2.240
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.430
When I disable the first tps feature 2.656
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.977
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.346
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:36.947
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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16.011
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 10.426
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.099
When I disable the first tps feature 2.527
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.066
When I enable the first tps feature 2.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.836
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 9.936
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.082
And I disable the first tps feature 2.641
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.036
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.110
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 9.644
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 9.334
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.583
When I write some files expected to persist 1.336
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.802
# 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" 18.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:19.974
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 9.905
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 9.041
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.217
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.969
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.972
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.068
And Tor is ready 13.026
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.368
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
Tags: @product
47.394
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.223
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.092
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.983
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:22.619
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 12.001
When I enable persistence 13.041
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.942
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.826
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.009
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.266
When I cold reboot the computer 9.174
And the computer reboots Tails 1:4.276
Given I enable persistence 9.908
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.477
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.540
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:43.191
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 12.952
# 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 21.879
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.365
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:37.210
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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40.608
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 10.876
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.709
Then persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.778
And all notifications have disappeared 9.507
When I delete the persistent partition 3.007
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:56.717
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 10.109
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.051
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.639
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.616
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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47.195
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 10.322
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.400
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 7.308
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.346
And all notifications have disappeared 9.504
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.866
And all tps features are enabled 2.434
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:50.383
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 5:13.177
And I enable persistence 23.101
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.117
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.713
And persistence is enabled 2.273
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.147
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.329
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.130
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.727
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 10.253
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.839
When I enable persistence 9.312
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.723
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 10.752
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.216
When I try to enable persistence 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.989
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.300
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.197
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.090
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.298
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.554
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.042
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 9.968
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.058
When I try to enable persistence 1.327
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.902
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I log in to a new session 13.584
And all notifications have disappeared 10.173
# 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" 0.254
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.616
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.544
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.094
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.768
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 9.785
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.588
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.361
When I try to enable persistence 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.198
When I log in to a new session 12.557
And all notifications have disappeared 9.274
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.479
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000