Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6016 19 Dec 2025, 11:47

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 29:37.168 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:8.431
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 1:53.810
And I update APT using apt 7.260
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.256
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.574
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 12.505
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.781
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.363
And persistence is disabled 0.115
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:1.273
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 14.121
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.353
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.591
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.522
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.232
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.208
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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35.967
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 10.999
And the system is very low on memory 4.681
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.216
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.268
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.124
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.536
And I free up some memory 0.885
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 10.646
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.608
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:49.148
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 12.136
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.366
And all tps features are active 2.044
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.235
When I disable the first tps feature 2.698
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.984
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.850
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.928
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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16.909
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 10.980
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 2.798
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.066
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.054
When I enable the first tps feature 2.678
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.568
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 9.436
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.097
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.090
And I disable the first tps feature 2.723
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.167
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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49.896
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 9.409
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 10.548
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.578
When I write some files expected to persist 1.332
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.617
# 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" 17.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.444
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:59.829
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 9.675
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 10.311
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.134
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.665
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.148
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.054
And Tor is ready 12.087
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.389
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.114
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.057
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49.553
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.827
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.125
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.697
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.599
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:5.751
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 12.147
When I enable persistence 19.274
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.862
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.948
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.660
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
When I cold reboot the computer 10.223
And the computer reboots Tails 40.522
Given I enable persistence 9.419
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.507
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.873
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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2:27.365
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 12.780
# 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 30.790
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.331
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.091
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.525
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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45.686
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 10.049
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.614
Then persistence is disabled 0.102
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.685
And all notifications have disappeared 9.981
When I delete the persistent partition 2.861
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.391
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.706
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.771
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 10.342
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.946
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.152
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.615
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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53.219
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 10.113
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.343
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.426
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.402
And all notifications have disappeared 9.351
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.342
And all tps features are enabled 2.155
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.675
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:6.625
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 5:24.652
And I enable persistence 27.110
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.079
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.619
And persistence is enabled 2.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.824
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.169
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.963
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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33.685
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 10.158
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.628
When I enable persistence 10.481
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.347
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.914
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.253
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 9.799
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.004
When I try to enable persistence 1.322
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.032
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.282
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.331
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.286
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.123
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.368
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.070
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 9.795
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.071
When I try to enable persistence 1.308
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.902
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I log in to a new session 12.479
And all notifications have disappeared 10.217
# 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" 0.214
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.464
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.272
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.881
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.184
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.759
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 9.823
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.340
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.351
When I try to enable persistence 1.311
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.313
When I log in to a new session 11.500
And all notifications have disappeared 9.735
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.251
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.130
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.384
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000