Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5971 27 Nov 2025, 08:15

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 32:50.511 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.055
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:56.432
And I update APT using apt 5.105
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.483
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.033
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.058
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 10.493
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.028
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.319
And persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:20.950
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 12.051
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.415
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.151
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.945
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.597
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.775
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:40.699
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.229
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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36.879
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 11.106
And the system is very low on memory 1.186
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.171
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.627
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.145
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.810
And I free up some memory 2.173
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.815
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:16.183
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 11.804
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.434
And all tps features are active 2.229
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.384
When I disable the first tps feature 3.139
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.678
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.386
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:42.807
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
16.566
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 10.184
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 3.091
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.082
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 2.768
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.989
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 9.603
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.261
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.144
And I disable the first tps feature 2.750
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.177
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
53.399
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 9.953
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 12.922
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.607
When I write some files expected to persist 1.355
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.270
# 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" 19.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:10.664
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 10.285
And the network is plugged 0.090
And Tor is ready 40.158
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.162
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.902
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:56.334
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 14.903
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.379
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.087
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
44.905
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 10.443
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.240
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 14.532
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:32.726
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 11.237
When I enable persistence 15.055
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.779
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 43.654
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.843
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
When I cold reboot the computer 9.446
And the computer reboots Tails 1:5.600
Given I enable persistence 10.683
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.533
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.540
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.940
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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2:59.416
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 enabled and logged in 11.409
# 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 23.461
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.005
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:41.613
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 34.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
44.803
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 11.134
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.543
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.535
And all notifications have disappeared 10.628
When I delete the persistent partition 2.980
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:1.240
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 10.648
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.635
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:42.141
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.761
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.843
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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51.030
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.126
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.256
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.625
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.002
And all notifications have disappeared 10.846
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.457
And all tps features are enabled 2.442
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:11.264
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 5:28.208
And I enable persistence 25.859
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.004
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.724
And persistence is enabled 2.467
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.507
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 9.223
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.542
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.931
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 11.949
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.269
When I enable persistence 13.187
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.464
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.907
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 10.313
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.503
When I try to enable persistence 1.412
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.648
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.385
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.368
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.080
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.304
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.452
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 10.250
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.079
When I try to enable persistence 1.334
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.410
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.191
When I log in to a new session 14.419
And all notifications have disappeared 10.945
# 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" 0.259
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.599
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.378
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.125
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.578
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 10.471
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.416
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.547
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.582
When I log in to a new session 13.577
And all notifications have disappeared 9.555
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.585
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000