Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5984 05 Dec 2025, 07:26

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 33:53.693 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:36.901
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:20.835
And I update APT using apt 8.517
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.477
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.792
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 13.435
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.434
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And persistence is disabled 0.122
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.627
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:13.311
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 14.808
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.498
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.128
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.889
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.698
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.651
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.301
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.274
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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50.599
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 13.969
And the system is very low on memory 6.139
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.463
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.914
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.143
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.636
And I free up some memory 1.196
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.266
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.826
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:6.193
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 13.537
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.415
And all tps features are active 2.464
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.761
When I disable the first tps feature 3.214
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.154
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.628
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.241
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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18.168
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 11.732
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.092
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.112
When I disable the first tps feature 3.209
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.142
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.587
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.074
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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19.713
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 13.014
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.148
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I disable the first tps feature 3.224
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.178
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.754
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 10.549
And the network is plugged 0.129
And Tor is ready 20.637
And I take note of which tps features are available 2.205
When I write some files expected to persist 1.383
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.329
# 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" 18.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:8.524
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 11.246
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 10.970
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.258
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.149
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.096
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 13.958
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.378
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.091
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.253
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.071
Tags: @product
56.801
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 13.169
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.132
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.793
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.705
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.933
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:29.635
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 12.631
When I enable persistence 22.009
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.372
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.537
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 36.652
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 11.082
And the computer reboots Tails 47.276
Given I enable persistence 11.511
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.624
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.609
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:48.671
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 17.464
# 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 37.771
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.592
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:18.946
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.348
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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55.411
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 13.250
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.532
Then persistence is disabled 0.160
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.402
And all notifications have disappeared 10.654
When I delete the persistent partition 3.897
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.399
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:48.297
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.026
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.513
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.512
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.499
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:5.987
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 13.955
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.326
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.825
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.647
And all notifications have disappeared 10.587
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.446
And all tps features are enabled 2.498
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.335
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:29.430
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 5:39.779
And I enable persistence 32.293
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.278
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.757
And persistence is enabled 2.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.053
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 9.713
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.467
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
42.916
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 12.584
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.002
When I enable persistence 13.578
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.884
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 11.973
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.214
When I try to enable persistence 1.470
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.678
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.442
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.082
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.302
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.793
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 11.824
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.148
When I try to enable persistence 1.850
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.101
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 13.927
And all notifications have disappeared 10.693
# 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" 0.243
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.540
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.447
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.351
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.956
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:7.850
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 11.894
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.411
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.396
When I try to enable persistence 1.391
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.502
When I log in to a new session 14.734
And all notifications have disappeared 14.222
Then the Tor Browser starts 6.006
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.482
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000