Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5995 09 Dec 2025, 23:45

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 32:26.682 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:15.896
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:0.705
And I update APT using apt 7.676
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.374
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.501
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.165
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 14.394
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.399
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.313
And persistence is disabled 0.150
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.601
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 13.957
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.384
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.409
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.740
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.585
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.127
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.224
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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39.443
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 11.210
And the system is very low on memory 5.592
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.293
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.535
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.167
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.598
And I free up some memory 1.195
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:35.078
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 14.233
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.471
And all tps features are active 11.396
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.651
When I disable the first tps feature 2.825
Then all tps features but the first one are active 19.582
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.170
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.254
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.492
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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18.914
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 11.829
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.151
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.071
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.082
When I disable the first tps feature 3.193
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.090
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.061
When I enable the first tps feature 3.299
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.051
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 10.221
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
And I disable the first tps feature 3.227
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.361
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.090
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.775
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 10.429
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 13.464
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.638
When I write some files expected to persist 1.440
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.623
# 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" 18.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:17.012
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 10.449
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 12.577
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.166
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.586
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:27.483
And I capture all network traffic 0.018
And the network is plugged 0.094
And Tor is ready 13.754
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.467
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.113
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
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54.995
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.531
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.123
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.314
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:27.679
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 14.281
When I enable persistence 24.235
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.437
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.116
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.401
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.220
When I cold reboot the computer 11.371
And the computer reboots Tails 43.684
Given I enable persistence 13.440
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.578
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.754
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.905
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
2:29.905
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 12.032
# 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 29.607
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.476
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:16.352
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.435
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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49.131
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 10.745
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.550
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.564
And all notifications have disappeared 10.266
When I delete the persistent partition 3.428
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.918
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 11.229
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.083
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.718
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.611
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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57.479
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 10.415
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.087
When I try to enable persistence 1.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.316
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.611
And all notifications have disappeared 9.950
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.411
And all tps features are enabled 2.378
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.003
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:18.470
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 5:32.955
And I enable persistence 28.988
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.235
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.771
And persistence is enabled 2.520
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.029
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.518
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 9.372
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.320
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.109
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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35.244
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 10.776
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.747
When I enable persistence 9.942
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.723
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.589
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
33.306
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 10.142
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.759
When I try to enable persistence 1.459
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.864
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.236
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.275
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.267
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.352
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 10.387
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.621
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.312
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I log in to a new session 13.808
And all notifications have disappeared 11.868
# 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 0.815
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.499
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.970
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.741
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 9.942
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.809
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.611
When I try to enable persistence 1.341
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.897
When I log in to a new session 13.032
And all notifications have disappeared 10.686
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.325
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.094
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000