Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6012 18 Dec 2025, 09:19

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 31:37.003 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:14.027
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 1:58.385
And I update APT using apt 8.196
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.332
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.113
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.586
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 12.965
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.734
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.334
And persistence is disabled 0.152
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:3.444
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 13.538
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.367
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.171
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.871
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.639
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.789
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.771
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.217
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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38.648
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 10.887
And the system is very low on memory 5.270
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.308
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.678
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.139
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.625
And I free up some memory 1.080
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.108
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.550
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:58.540
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 13.637
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.487
And all tps features are active 2.252
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.227
When I disable the first tps feature 3.147
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.125
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.315
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.416
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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17.422
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 11.173
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.118
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.117
When I disable the first tps feature 3.174
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.079
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 2.519
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
16.761
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 10.456
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.066
And I disable the first tps feature 2.850
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.236
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.180
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.484
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 10.254
And the network is plugged 0.066
And Tor is ready 14.321
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.761
When I write some files expected to persist 1.575
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.054
# 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" 18.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.416
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:7.244
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 enabled and logged in 10.289
And the network is plugged 0.083
And Tor is ready 12.192
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.178
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.602
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.110
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.067
And Tor is ready 12.996
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.426
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.100
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
Tags: @product
53.674
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 12.578
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.108
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.063
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.567
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:23.713
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 12.607
When I enable persistence 21.787
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.228
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.930
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.601
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.165
When I cold reboot the computer 12.208
And the computer reboots Tails 46.117
Given I enable persistence 12.591
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.752
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.557
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:31.462
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 12.999
# 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 29.303
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.253
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:16.624
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
Tags: @product
49.918
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 11.177
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.021
Then persistence is disabled 0.144
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.599
And all notifications have disappeared 10.618
When I delete the persistent partition 2.898
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.164
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.802
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 12.847
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.476
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.688
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.720
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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58.083
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 10.347
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.061
When I try to enable persistence 1.350
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.227
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.054
And all notifications have disappeared 9.676
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.523
And all tps features are enabled 2.634
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.206
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:21.619
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:30.364
And I enable persistence 33.494
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.539
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.789
And persistence is enabled 2.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.744
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
36.176
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.684
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 25.794
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.696
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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35.925
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 10.253
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.577
When I enable persistence 11.547
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.478
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.865
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 10.297
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.266
When I try to enable persistence 1.385
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.685
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.219
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.335
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.323
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
57.062
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 10.484
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 1.329
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.305
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.334
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.053
When I log in to a new session 12.166
And all notifications have disappeared 11.685
# 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" 0.281
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.598
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.363
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.030
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.128
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.538
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 10.881
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.838
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.456
When I try to enable persistence 1.570
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.512
When I log in to a new session 11.759
And all notifications have disappeared 10.347
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.974
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000