Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5985 05 Dec 2025, 20:49

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 31:22.862 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:12.921
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 1:56.554
And I update APT using apt 5.889
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.397
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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33.268
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 10.389
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.473
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And persistence is disabled 0.110
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.821
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:2.754
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.166
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 14.536
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.385
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.147
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.154
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.793
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.041
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.832
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.779
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.177
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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38.127
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 9.866
And the system is very low on memory 1.104
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.187
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.512
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.145
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.737
And I free up some memory 1.261
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.325
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.985
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.581
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 10.699
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.415
And all tps features are active 2.335
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.219
When I disable the first tps feature 2.744
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.436
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.033
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.082
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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16.538
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 10.717
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.074
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 2.706
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.069
When I enable the first tps feature 2.629
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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21.816
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 10.180
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.078
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.073
And I disable the first tps feature 7.342
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.096
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.230
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:0.272
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 10.304
And the network is plugged 0.069
And Tor is ready 13.994
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.637
When I write some files expected to persist 1.857
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.127
# 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" 25.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.304
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:4.663
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 10.389
And the network is plugged 0.086
And Tor is ready 11.137
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.209
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.138
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.239
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.102
And Tor is ready 13.462
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.598
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.852
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
Tags: @product
48.289
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.055
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 12.064
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:9.787
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.302
When I enable persistence 12.588
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.390
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.514
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.062
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.167
When I cold reboot the computer 9.941
And the computer reboots Tails 43.127
Given I enable persistence 11.190
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.604
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.723
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:56.641
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 10.338
# 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 22.623
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.092
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:42.305
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 33.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
Tags: @product
43.139
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 10.650
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.552
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.179
And all notifications have disappeared 11.305
When I delete the persistent partition 2.956
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.029
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 10.183
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.096
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.961
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.458
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.329
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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52.747
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 10.973
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.104
When I try to enable persistence 1.395
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.076
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.979
And all notifications have disappeared 10.665
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.451
And all tps features are enabled 2.782
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:32.597
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:45.941
And I enable persistence 26.924
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.206
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.748
And persistence is enabled 5.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.349
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 8.955
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.777
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.733
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 11.065
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.740
When I enable persistence 12.203
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.664
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.191
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.215
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 9.669
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.512
When I try to enable persistence 1.488
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.426
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.278
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.283
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.242
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.962
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 10.328
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.084
When I try to enable persistence 1.366
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.351
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.313
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I log in to a new session 20.258
And all notifications have disappeared 12.625
# 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" 0.413
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.650
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.407
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.961
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:4.421
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 14.095
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.703
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.368
When I try to enable persistence 1.337
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.124
When I log in to a new session 14.499
And all notifications have disappeared 15.512
Then the Tor Browser starts 6.335
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.443
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000