Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5975 28 Nov 2025, 21:49

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 39:16.763 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:22.502
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:5.390
And I update APT using apt 9.440
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.366
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.113
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 13.968
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.605
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.414
And persistence is disabled 0.117
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.981
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:30.589
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 14.882
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.401
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.147
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.221
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.686
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.648
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:32.306
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 2.224
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 10.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:2.917
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 26.957
And the system is very low on memory 6.525
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.926
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.494
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.153
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.981
And I free up some memory 0.980
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.274
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.623
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:30.146
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 13.911
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.454
And all tps features are active 2.371
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.295
When I disable the first tps feature 3.571
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.297
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 23.638
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 2:39.230
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.374
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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22.201
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 12.687
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.131
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.124
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.122
When I disable the first tps feature 5.610
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.209
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 3.108
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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16.350
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 9.643
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.089
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I disable the first tps feature 3.172
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.256
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:2.830
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 16.163
And the network is plugged 0.083
And Tor is ready 15.062
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.644
When I write some files expected to persist 1.434
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.750
# 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" 19.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.600
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.346
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 11.472
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 13.502
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 15.208
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:52.434
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 13.547
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.523
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.132
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.293
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.087
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1:4.552
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.478
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 21.573
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 28.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.754
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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4:1.310
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 13.644
When I enable persistence 26.067
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 19.575
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 42.327
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.130
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
When I cold reboot the computer 12.699
And the computer reboots Tails 1:8.926
Given I enable persistence 12.666
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.566
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.382
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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3:33.859
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 14.003
# 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 37.527
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.558
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:59.038
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.405
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.022
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53.736
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 11.651
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.290
Then persistence is disabled 0.285
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.669
And all notifications have disappeared 10.751
When I delete the persistent partition 3.600
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.487
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.743
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.562
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 11.034
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.079
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.895
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:52.931
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.621
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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1:1.439
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 12.002
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.402
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.197
And all notifications have disappeared 9.649
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.400
And all tps features are enabled 2.505
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:57.871
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 6:9.980
And I enable persistence 31.647
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.814
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.834
And persistence is enabled 2.593
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.574
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.964
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.030
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 10.243
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.794
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.073
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 13.489
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.660
When I enable persistence 12.165
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.084
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.959
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 11.430
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.369
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.967
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.311
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.211
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.283
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.915
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 11.957
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.303
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.705
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.339
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I log in to a new session 14.780
And all notifications have disappeared 11.711
# 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" 0.316
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.501
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.252
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.081
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.521
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 10.940
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.568
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.443
When I try to enable persistence 1.372
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.011
When I log in to a new session 14.204
And all notifications have disappeared 9.862
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.871
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000