Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5993 09 Dec 2025, 08:13

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 34:24.844 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:14.332
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 1:58.902
And I update APT using apt 7.158
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.435
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.395
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 14.435
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.250
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.362
And persistence is disabled 0.157
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.331
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:24.113
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 13.929
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.483
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.134
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 30.207
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.684
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.275
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:27.034
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.302
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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41.276
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.377
And the system is very low on memory 5.357
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.386
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.828
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.174
When I close the Persistent Storage app 3.398
And I free up some memory 1.069
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.094
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:32.522
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 15.385
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.437
And all tps features are active 2.262
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.303
When I disable the first tps feature 3.246
Then all tps features but the first one are active 16.188
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.273
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:38.818
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.606
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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25.754
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 17.823
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.094
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.088
When I disable the first tps feature 3.153
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.071
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 4.259
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.118
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 10.498
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.139
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 3.214
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.138
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.668
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 9.459
And the network is plugged 0.084
And Tor is ready 13.786
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.600
When I write some files expected to persist 1.334
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.129
# 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" 18.272
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.201
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:13.679
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 9.781
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 11.082
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.186
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.345
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:27.445
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 12.564
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.637
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.100
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.402
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.074
Tags: @product
54.276
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 12.918
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.129
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.254
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:25.301
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.148
When I enable persistence 22.846
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.581
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.779
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.654
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.187
When I cold reboot the computer 12.390
And the computer reboots Tails 44.340
Given I enable persistence 11.223
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.619
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.343
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
2:33.109
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 11.932
# 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 30.378
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.720
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:18.986
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.237
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
50.912
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 11.520
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.301
Then persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.174
And all notifications have disappeared 10.931
When I delete the persistent partition 3.386
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.468
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.267
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:43.981
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 11.139
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.959
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.541
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.027
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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1:0.236
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 10.407
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 1.369
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 18.227
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.753
And all notifications have disappeared 10.536
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.409
And all tps features are enabled 2.297
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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7:36.400
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 6:37.891
And I enable persistence 35.519
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 20.026
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.656
And persistence is enabled 2.306
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
40.761
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 14.399
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.643
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.718
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.280
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
38.790
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 11.848
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.131
When I enable persistence 13.055
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.499
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 12.614
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.345
When I try to enable persistence 1.419
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.123
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.235
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.228
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.075
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.274
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
58.895
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 10.510
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.092
When I try to enable persistence 1.361
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.864
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.403
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.113
When I log in to a new session 12.755
And all notifications have disappeared 11.389
# 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" 0.242
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.562
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.264
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.069
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.290
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:3.816
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 16.994
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.360
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.371
When I try to enable persistence 1.355
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.329
When I log in to a new session 12.746
And all notifications have disappeared 11.107
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.355
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.770
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000