Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5982 03 Dec 2025, 21:10

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 35:24.047 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:26.850
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 2:9.027
And I update APT using apt 6.848
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.614
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.360
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.574
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 13.249
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 22.695
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406
And persistence is disabled 0.297
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.925
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:19.413
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 14.812
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.388
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.117
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.112
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.657
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.301
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.652
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.273
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.038
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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56.325
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 22.282
And the system is very low on memory 4.608
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.988
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.350
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.183
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.645
And I free up some memory 1.308
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.309
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.318
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 13.636
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.381
And all tps features are active 2.482
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.768
When I disable the first tps feature 3.220
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.968
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.939
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:27.338
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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18.220
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 11.790
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 3.195
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.100
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.719
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.782
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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18.543
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 11.797
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.068
And I disable the first tps feature 3.154
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.361
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.193
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:29.179
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 11.841
And the network is plugged 0.069
And Tor is ready 43.136
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.630
When I write some files expected to persist 1.592
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.368
# 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" 19.541
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:49.485
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 10.509
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 14.610
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.988
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:26.819
And I capture all network traffic 0.007
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 44.517
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.419
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.094
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.090
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59.529
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 14.938
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.119
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.626
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:43.710
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 14.383
When I enable persistence 37.462
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.413
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.740
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.327
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.267
When I cold reboot the computer 7.996
And the computer reboots Tails 45.028
Given I enable persistence 14.528
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.627
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.695
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:45.519
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 13.098
# 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 31.856
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.338
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:25.757
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.493
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
53.130
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 11.373
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.813
Then persistence is disabled 0.129
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.300
And all notifications have disappeared 11.343
When I delete the persistent partition 3.629
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.540
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:48.799
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 enabled and logged in 11.983
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.457
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.990
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:2.046
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 11.278
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.074
When I try to enable persistence 1.409
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.047
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.255
And all notifications have disappeared 10.001
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.355
And all tps features are enabled 2.522
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:50.207
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
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 6:1.456
And I enable persistence 31.971
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.801
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.693
And persistence is enabled 2.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.827
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 9.898
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.136
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.408
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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38.604
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 11.613
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.665
When I enable persistence 10.443
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.582
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 10.380
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.940
When I try to enable persistence 1.440
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.169
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.312
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.442
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.551
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.060
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 10.077
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.269
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.971
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I log in to a new session 13.890
And all notifications have disappeared 12.014
# 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" 0.300
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.570
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.568
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.815
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.151
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:2.117
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 11.352
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.101
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.389
When I try to enable persistence 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.899
When I log in to a new session 14.070
And all notifications have disappeared 11.306
Then the Tor Browser starts 4.430
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.586
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000