Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5991 08 Dec 2025, 19:43

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 32:31.183 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:19.764
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 2:1.547
And I update APT using apt 7.705
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.369
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.146
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.282
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 14.171
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.126
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.409
And persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.373
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:13.452
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 16.672
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.402
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.129
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.585
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.276
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.631
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.594
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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39.270
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 10.971
And the system is very low on memory 4.851
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.249
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.753
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.124
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.534
And I free up some memory 1.093
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:55.829
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 13.037
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.429
And all tps features are active 2.465
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.384
When I disable the first tps feature 3.129
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.016
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.511
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.643
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.644
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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18.207
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 11.310
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 3.670
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.064
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.738
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
17.113
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 10.142
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.077
And I disable the first tps feature 3.136
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.620
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.504
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 10.777
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 14.460
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.787
When I write some files expected to persist 1.452
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.824
# 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" 20.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.387
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:5.578
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 10.545
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 10.899
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.181
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.002
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.966
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 14.135
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.398
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.091
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
Tags: @product
51.781
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 12.360
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.116
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.931
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.816
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:24.469
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.966
When I enable persistence 25.948
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.266
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.386
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.459
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.178
When I cold reboot the computer 10.894
And the computer reboots Tails 42.557
Given I enable persistence 12.505
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.599
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.539
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
Tags: @product
3:9.101
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 13.240
# 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 39.176
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.434
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:31.009
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 34.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.864
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
Tags: @product
50.311
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 11.334
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.864
Then persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.131
And all notifications have disappeared 10.956
When I delete the persistent partition 3.508
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.409
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.262
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 10.736
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.100
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.502
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.263
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.617
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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57.070
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 10.416
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.427
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.535
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.305
And all notifications have disappeared 9.913
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.534
And all tps features are enabled 2.580
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
6:15.125
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 5:27.979
And I enable persistence 29.709
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.729
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.833
And persistence is enabled 2.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.900
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.441
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 22.704
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.325
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.183
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 12.086
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.281
When I enable persistence 9.747
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.124
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.942
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.955
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.719
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 10.269
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.850
When I try to enable persistence 1.419
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.036
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.288
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.247
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.066
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.276
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.383
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.423
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 10.401
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.114
When I try to enable persistence 1.368
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.503
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 0.057
When I log in to a new session 12.437
And all notifications have disappeared 12.767
# 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" 0.277
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.649
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.365
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.956
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.645
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:11.831
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 10.352
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 22.982
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.433
When I try to enable persistence 1.306
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 6.246
When I log in to a new session 13.843
And all notifications have disappeared 11.317
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.968
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.379
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000