Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6011 17 Dec 2025, 15:05

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 31:22.427 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:40.836
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 2:26.832
And I update APT using apt 6.351
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.299
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.352
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.824
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 10.019
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.322
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.320
And persistence is disabled 0.113
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:56.881
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 11.593
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.007
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.537
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.032
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.974
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.253
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.713
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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35.160
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 11.156
And the system is very low on memory 1.123
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.169
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.319
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.158
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.665
And I free up some memory 1.086
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.795
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.684
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:54.191
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 10.716
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.390
And all tps features are active 2.423
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.645
When I disable the first tps feature 3.090
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.398
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.817
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:20.642
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.790
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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15.783
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 9.390
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
When I disable the first tps feature 2.652
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.439
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.103
When I enable the first tps feature 2.847
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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16.149
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 persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.065
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
And I disable the first tps feature 2.621
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.320
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.750
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
52.035
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.346
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 13.458
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.548
When I write some files expected to persist 1.389
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.548
# 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" 18.687
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.370
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:3.033
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 11.036
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 10.607
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 8.517
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.790
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 13.039
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.449
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.130
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.195
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.034
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
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49.859
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 11.299
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.082
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.552
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:13.560
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 10.577
When I enable persistence 14.921
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.668
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.126
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.271
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.252
When I cold reboot the computer 9.153
And the computer reboots Tails 42.283
Given I enable persistence 14.784
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.587
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.787
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:55.154
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
# 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 26.282
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.425
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:37.480
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 32.557
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
44.811
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 10.957
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.532
Then persistence is disabled 0.151
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.068
And all notifications have disappeared 11.164
When I delete the persistent partition 3.533
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.403
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.356
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 10.051
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.081
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.638
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.295
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.289
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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56.372
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 10.967
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.088
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 13.601
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.962
And all notifications have disappeared 10.457
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.934
And all tps features are enabled 2.426
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:48.312
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 6:6.044
And I enable persistence 25.402
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.956
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.709
And persistence is enabled 2.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.897
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.022
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 12.325
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.970
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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35.380
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.628
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.696
When I enable persistence 14.829
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.088
And persistence is successfully enabled 3.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.009
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.629
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 10.308
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.132
When I try to enable persistence 1.330
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.560
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.343
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.281
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.302
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.792
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 9.512
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.101
When I try to enable persistence 1.667
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.615
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.387
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.060
When I log in to a new session 14.564
And all notifications have disappeared 10.566
# 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" 0.232
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.793
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.286
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.128
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
50.279
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 9.377
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.183
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.387
When I try to enable persistence 1.285
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.839
When I log in to a new session 12.382
And all notifications have disappeared 11.242
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.328
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.653
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000