Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5974 27 Nov 2025, 21:34

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 36:10.686 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:16.589
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 2:0.984
And I update APT using apt 8.086
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.400
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.963
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 14.150
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.094
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.355
And persistence is disabled 0.147
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.214
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:42.010
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 15.261
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.493
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.132
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.903
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.691
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.395
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:44.342
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.727
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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45.113
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 12.572
And the system is very low on memory 5.358
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.353
When I try to create a persistent partition 7.514
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.180
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.636
And I free up some memory 1.710
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.171
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:27.328
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 13.639
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.929
And all tps features are active 2.581
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.933
When I disable the first tps feature 3.192
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.002
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.073
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:47.893
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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18.842
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 12.642
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.096
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 3.134
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.069
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.062
When I enable the first tps feature 2.571
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.138
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 10.414
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.116
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 3.300
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.176
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.192
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 10.596
And the network is plugged 0.251
And Tor is ready 14.012
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.626
When I write some files expected to persist 1.406
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.154
# 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" 19.145
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:40.843
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 10.383
And the network is plugged 0.071
And Tor is ready 11.581
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.473
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:50.289
And I capture all network traffic 0.024
And the network is plugged 2.048
And Tor is ready 14.130
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.441
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
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58.196
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 13.516
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.103
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.397
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.566
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:54.533
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 14.250
When I enable persistence 27.094
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 16.084
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.707
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.767
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.358
When I cold reboot the computer 12.699
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.673
Given I enable persistence 11.642
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.539
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.566
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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3:36.058
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 13.129
# 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 41.747
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.891
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 2:4.560
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
53.840
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 11.956
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.027
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.242
And all notifications have disappeared 11.556
When I delete the persistent partition 3.493
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.630
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 12.329
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.904
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:48.049
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.279
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.901
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
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1:4.479
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.809
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.457
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.563
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.206
And all notifications have disappeared 10.214
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.457
And all tps features are enabled 2.667
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:31.984
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 5:41.906
And I enable persistence 32.797
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.171
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.738
And persistence is enabled 2.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.307
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.429
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 9.574
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.119
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.911
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.251
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.574
When I enable persistence 14.464
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.076
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.281
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 11.042
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.091
When I try to enable persistence 1.403
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.308
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.331
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.342
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.107
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.287
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.107
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 10.862
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.062
When I try to enable persistence 1.424
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.579
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I log in to a new session 14.475
And all notifications have disappeared 10.932
# 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" 1.552
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.869
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.427
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.279
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.210
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 10.599
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.913
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.342
When I try to enable persistence 1.360
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.391
When I log in to a new session 13.737
And all notifications have disappeared 10.454
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.021
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.389
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000