Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6007 14 Dec 2025, 12:48

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 30:43.819 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:19.180
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 2:3.875
And I update APT using apt 7.857
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.292
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.249
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 12.839
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.060
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.298
And persistence is disabled 0.128
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:1.458
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 13.593
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.416
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.849
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.610
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.091
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.475
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.236
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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38.205
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 10.986
And the system is very low on memory 5.742
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.248
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.731
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 2.553
And I free up some memory 0.974
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.086
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:53.871
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 12.621
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.457
And all tps features are active 2.244
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.404
When I disable the first tps feature 3.138
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.030
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.949
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.024
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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17.047
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 11.220
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.064
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.103
When I disable the first tps feature 2.819
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.064
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.504
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.833
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.726
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 10.128
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I disable the first tps feature 3.160
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.189
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.372
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 10.134
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 11.222
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.538
When I write some files expected to persist 1.434
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.754
# 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" 19.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.498
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:0.338
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 10.257
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 11.178
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.158
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.461
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.917
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 12.468
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.487
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.082
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.108
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.040
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50.242
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.338
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.121
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 17.267
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.514
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:7.939
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 13.301
When I enable persistence 18.525
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.030
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.997
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.301
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
When I cold reboot the computer 7.714
And the computer reboots Tails 42.586
Given I enable persistence 9.508
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.513
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.133
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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2:29.940
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 12.641
# 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 28.265
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.100
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:16.490
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.414
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
Tags: @product
48.811
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.034
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.136
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.205
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.599
And all notifications have disappeared 10.389
When I delete the persistent partition 2.988
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.381
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.308
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.431
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 13.084
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.574
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.380
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.265
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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59.251
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 11.137
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.143
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.073
And all notifications have disappeared 9.928
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.543
And all tps features are enabled 2.184
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.891
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:10.546
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 5:23.451
And I enable persistence 31.969
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.217
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.646
And persistence is enabled 2.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.226
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 9.395
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.176
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.856
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 12.570
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 13.583
When I enable persistence 11.075
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.570
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.030
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 10.333
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.028
When I try to enable persistence 1.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.302
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.279
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.255
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.054
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.294
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.133
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.671
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 10.372
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.745
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.339
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I log in to a new session 11.481
And all notifications have disappeared 10.878
# 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" 0.262
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.590
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.276
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.055
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.197
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.419
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 10.487
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.246
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.403
When I try to enable persistence 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.666
When I log in to a new session 12.357
And all notifications have disappeared 10.314
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.452
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.607
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000