Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6008 15 Dec 2025, 12:28

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 27:48.598 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:0.640
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:47.534
And I update APT using apt 5.877
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.262
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.965
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.063
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 9.591
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.374
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.325
And persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:48.516
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 10.620
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.318
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.165
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.541
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.610
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.858
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.224
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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34.333
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 9.861
And the system is very low on memory 1.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.193
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.644
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.203
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.623
And I free up some memory 1.026
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.935
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.781
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:45.941
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 10.380
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.317
And all tps features are active 1.991
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.192
When I disable the first tps feature 2.658
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.330
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.738
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.177
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
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15.311
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 9.525
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.079
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.738
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.078
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.584
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.265
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 9.468
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.569
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.052
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.014
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 10.086
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 10.364
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.633
When I write some files expected to persist 1.525
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.766
# 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" 18.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:54.663
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 10.116
And the network is plugged 0.192
And Tor is ready 9.854
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.160
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.534
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.383
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 12.686
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.427
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.050
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41.268
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.105
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.537
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.642
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:57.778
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 9.636
When I enable persistence 10.957
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.030
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.066
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.673
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.211
When I cold reboot the computer 9.341
And the computer reboots Tails 40.224
Given I enable persistence 12.086
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.651
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.749
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:18.864
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 9.827
# 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 22.171
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.643
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.564
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 26.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.546
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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39.299
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 9.414
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.854
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.606
And all notifications have disappeared 9.880
When I delete the persistent partition 3.067
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.104
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.523
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 9.653
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.624
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.903
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.949
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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47.256
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 10.022
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.057
When I try to enable persistence 1.334
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.975
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.421
And all notifications have disappeared 9.825
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.330
And all tps features are enabled 2.237
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:58.874
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 5:19.347
And I enable persistence 24.567
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.028
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.678
And persistence is enabled 2.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.735
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.568
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 9.058
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.815
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.726
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.899
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.873
When I enable persistence 9.566
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.685
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.695
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 9.571
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.380
When I try to enable persistence 1.307
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.339
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.260
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.064
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.292
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.153
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.163
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 9.565
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.075
When I try to enable persistence 1.347
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.785
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.287
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.052
When I log in to a new session 12.509
And all notifications have disappeared 10.305
# 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" 0.328
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.683
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.410
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.211
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.601
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.827
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 9.549
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.998
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.382
When I try to enable persistence 1.292
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.771
When I log in to a new session 14.019
And all notifications have disappeared 11.790
Then the Tor Browser starts 5.536
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.486
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000