Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5996 10 Dec 2025, 07:37

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 33:0.089 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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3:5.526
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 2:50.147
And I update APT using apt 8.013
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.283
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.764
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 46.867
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.507
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.302
And persistence is disabled 0.107
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 12.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:25.786
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 24.144
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.357
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.101
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.067
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.531
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.958
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:29.922
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.639
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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44.765
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 10.511
And the system is very low on memory 1.035
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.186
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.957
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.177
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.676
And I free up some memory 1.083
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.498
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.615
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 9.953
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.398
And all tps features are active 2.037
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.579
When I disable the first tps feature 2.635
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.981
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.530
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.288
Then all tps features but the first one are active 6.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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18.342
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 12.140
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 3.086
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.082
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.065
When I enable the first tps feature 2.624
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.026
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.254
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 9.839
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.075
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.067
And I disable the first tps feature 2.602
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.602
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.369
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 16.980
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 12.712
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.561
When I write some files expected to persist 1.586
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.400
# 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" 19.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:0.202
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 9.883
And the network is plugged 0.047
And Tor is ready 10.340
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.144
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.063
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.420
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 13.386
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.523
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.111
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.218
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.737
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.053
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55.574
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 19.246
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.103
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.049
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.175
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.539
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:2.917
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 10.032
When I enable persistence 13.011
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.373
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.966
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.093
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.218
When I cold reboot the computer 8.664
And the computer reboots Tails 42.513
Given I enable persistence 11.778
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.501
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.579
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:56.120
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 10.085
# 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 27.288
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.003
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:42.527
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.215
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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40.127
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.889
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.479
Then persistence is disabled 0.138
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.122
And all notifications have disappeared 9.761
When I delete the persistent partition 3.303
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.432
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.686
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:33.923
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 10.408
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.076
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.198
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.934
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.305
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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49.549
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.392
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.690
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.677
And all notifications have disappeared 9.802
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 2.015
And all tps features are enabled 2.612
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.877
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:44.961
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 6:0.768
And I enable persistence 26.916
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.125
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.731
And persistence is enabled 2.419
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.598
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 9.674
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.104
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.818
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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34.085
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 10.225
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.950
When I enable persistence 15.054
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.805
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 10.258
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.665
When I try to enable persistence 1.806
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.671
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.352
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.455
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.270
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.255
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
47.766
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 9.736
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.090
When I try to enable persistence 1.275
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.787
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.355
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I log in to a new session 13.638
And all notifications have disappeared 10.180
# 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" 0.264
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.737
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.501
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.913
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.629
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.032
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 9.947
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.887
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.375
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 9.456
When I log in to a new session 14.677
And all notifications have disappeared 10.711
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.449
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.143
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000