Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5980 02 Dec 2025, 13:12

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 33:9.856 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:16.674
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 2:1.866
And I update APT using apt 6.991
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.359
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.681
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 13.331
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.734
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.377
And persistence is disabled 0.227
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.010
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.675
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 13.917
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.437
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.397
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.589
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.846
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.040
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.240
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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41.070
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 11.590
And the system is very low on memory 7.187
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.211
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.734
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.142
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.530
And I free up some memory 0.944
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.112
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.898
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:53.308
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.646
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.373
And all tps features are active 2.356
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.418
When I disable the first tps feature 3.227
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.421
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.616
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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17.443
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 11.220
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.107
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I disable the first tps feature 2.954
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.088
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.666
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.098
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.957
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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16.814
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 10.021
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 3.152
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.430
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.215
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 10.412
And the network is plugged 0.072
And Tor is ready 13.886
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.573
When I write some files expected to persist 1.361
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.853
# 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" 18.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.603
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:12.763
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 10.816
And the network is plugged 0.248
And Tor is ready 11.184
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.708
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.425
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 12.464
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.430
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.109
Tags: @product
53.821
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 12.938
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.159
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.495
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:23.201
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 12.938
When I enable persistence 23.803
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.178
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.556
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.731
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
When I cold reboot the computer 10.990
And the computer reboots Tails 43.993
Given I enable persistence 11.063
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.591
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.024
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:31.921
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 13.635
# 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 28.371
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.935
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:18.975
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.437
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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49.684
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 11.674
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.878
Then persistence is disabled 0.144
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.686
And all notifications have disappeared 10.804
When I delete the persistent partition 3.025
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.469
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.905
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 11.587
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.086
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.772
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.141
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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59.459
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 11.496
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.373
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.522
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.091
And all notifications have disappeared 9.882
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.388
And all tps features are enabled 2.520
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:52.640
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7:7.149
And I enable persistence 29.546
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.963
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.735
And persistence is enabled 2.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.903
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 9.950
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 23.193
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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35.875
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
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.483
When I enable persistence 9.922
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.099
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.299
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.787
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 10.482
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.446
When I try to enable persistence 1.531
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.331
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.211
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.203
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.939
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 10.443
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.392
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.550
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 0.047
When I log in to a new session 13.510
And all notifications have disappeared 10.931
# 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" 0.223
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.640
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.342
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.248
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.232
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.066
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 10.790
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.504
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.400
When I try to enable persistence 1.436
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.092
When I log in to a new session 12.705
And all notifications have disappeared 10.404
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.407
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000