Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5972 27 Nov 2025, 14:41

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 38:31.607 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:57.476
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 2:40.865
And I update APT using apt 8.565
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.352
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.751
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 32.028
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.144
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.394
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:0.172
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 15.629
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.384
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 51.572
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.655
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.197
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:43.310
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.226
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.068
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46.911
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 13.327
And the system is very low on memory 4.553
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.227
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.670
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.197
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.616
And I free up some memory 1.438
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.134
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:37.564
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 13.690
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.509
And all tps features are active 10.197
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.430
When I disable the first tps feature 3.252
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.141
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.119
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.407
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.815
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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17.953
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.019
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.401
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.072
When I disable the first tps feature 3.414
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.190
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.140
When I enable the first tps feature 3.374
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.119
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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18.137
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 11.158
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.095
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.069
And I disable the first tps feature 2.828
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.931
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.101
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 10.129
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 46.902
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.727
When I write some files expected to persist 1.697
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.363
# 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" 19.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:36.620
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 10.803
And the network is plugged 0.068
And Tor is ready 12.845
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.274
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.888
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:45.677
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 14.354
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.391
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.071
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.181
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.073
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56.115
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.394
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.153
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.956
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:51.696
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 13.154
When I enable persistence 22.134
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.490
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.802
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.591
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.181
When I cold reboot the computer 13.061
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.960
Given I enable persistence 13.331
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.615
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.047
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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3:8.151
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 14.049
# 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 32.859
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.083
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:48.291
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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51.571
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 11.297
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.531
Then persistence is disabled 0.214
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.722
And all notifications have disappeared 10.635
When I delete the persistent partition 3.690
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.479
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.330
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 12.876
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.121
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.484
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.578
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:4.806
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 15.250
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.680
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.973
And all notifications have disappeared 9.687
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.771
And all tps features are enabled 2.390
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:29.417
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 6:40.316
And I enable persistence 30.913
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 15.219
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.732
And persistence is enabled 2.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.116
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.360
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.810
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.668
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.880
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.217
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.252
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 12.295
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.929
When I enable persistence 11.182
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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34.302
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.158
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.664
When I try to enable persistence 1.389
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.964
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.220
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.353
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.176
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.041
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 10.632
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.273
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.865
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.361
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I log in to a new session 13.577
And all notifications have disappeared 12.972
# 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" 0.241
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.970
When I close the "whisperback" window 2.168
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.482
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:9.869
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 10.240
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.534
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.429
When I try to enable persistence 1.331
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.479
When I log in to a new session 22.748
And all notifications have disappeared 12.239
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.516
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.378
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000