Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5986 06 Dec 2025, 11:37

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 31:34.130 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:41.137
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.009
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.193
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:27.121
And I update APT using apt 6.075
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.533
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.407
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.870
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 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.595
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.423
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.348
And persistence is disabled 0.188
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:10.162
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 17.379
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.109
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.054
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.668
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.719
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.110
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.713
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.089
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.016
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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38.699
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 10.551
And the system is very low on memory 1.458
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.187
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.272
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.252
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.751
And I free up some memory 1.225
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 15.200
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.755
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:57.866
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 10.313
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.347
And all tps features are active 4.636
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.709
When I disable the first tps feature 3.212
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.411
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.970
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.469
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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16.428
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 10.316
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I disable the first tps feature 2.675
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.075
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.069
When I enable the first tps feature 2.885
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.082
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 10.083
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
And I disable the first tps feature 2.607
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.209
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.140
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 11.071
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 14.161
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.729
When I write some files expected to persist 1.694
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.816
# 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" 18.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:4.687
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 10.798
And the network is plugged 0.077
And Tor is ready 9.896
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.398
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.657
And I capture all network traffic 0.014
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 12.821
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.451
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.079
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.268
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.895
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
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50.167
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 11.589
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.085
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.811
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.681
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.336
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:14.789
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.011
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.176
When I enable persistence 13.986
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.662
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.198
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.309
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.212
When I cold reboot the computer 9.710
And the computer reboots Tails 44.326
Given I enable persistence 15.546
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.509
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.981
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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3:1.369
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 10.222
# 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 27.946
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.255
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:35.599
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 39.345
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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46.958
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 9.565
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.170
Then persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.246
And all notifications have disappeared 12.035
When I delete the persistent partition 7.335
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:43.183
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 10.612
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.071
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.884
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.676
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
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56.953
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 10.648
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.676
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.160
And all notifications have disappeared 10.039
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.393
And all tps features are enabled 2.581
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.114
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:30.423
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.004
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.056
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 5:46.477
And I enable persistence 28.229
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.762
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.638
And persistence is enabled 2.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.894
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 9.339
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.856
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.699
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.572
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.664
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 10.092
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.573
When I enable persistence 11.071
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.071
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.738
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.576
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 10.084
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.281
When I try to enable persistence 1.414
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.694
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.268
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.261
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.312
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.202
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
48.899
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 10.635
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.086
When I try to enable persistence 1.338
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.355
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.081
When I log in to a new session 13.234
And all notifications have disappeared 11.402
# 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" 0.269
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.573
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.341
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.231
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.174
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.018
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.893
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.557
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.333
When I try to enable persistence 1.320
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.414
When I log in to a new session 12.487
And all notifications have disappeared 9.666
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.196
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000