Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6017 20 Dec 2025, 11:35

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 27:21.706 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:3.012
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:48.749
And I update APT using apt 6.903
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.282
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.023
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 9.509
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.338
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.839
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.097
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 10.489
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.393
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.620
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.508
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.364
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.326
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.199
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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44.425
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 10.000
And the system is very low on memory 0.984
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.149
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.971
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.120
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.558
And I free up some memory 1.008
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.966
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:41.630
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 9.663
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
And all tps features are active 2.047
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.329
When I disable the first tps feature 2.570
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.250
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.018
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.273
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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15.394
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 enabled and logged in 9.170
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.668
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.068
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.062
When I enable the first tps feature 3.048
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.123
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.930
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.710
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 9.859
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.545
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.137
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.054
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 enabled and logged in 9.729
And the network is plugged 0.049
And Tor is ready 10.110
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.676
When I write some files expected to persist 1.638
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.789
# 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" 18.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:54.009
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 9.417
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 10.360
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.157
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.500
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.475
And I capture all network traffic 0.018
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 13.202
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.432
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.091
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.240
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.048
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40.680
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 9.984
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.097
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.299
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.298
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:51.386
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 10.134
When I enable persistence 11.088
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.669
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.921
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.094
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.185
When I cold reboot the computer 4.430
And the computer reboots Tails 40.068
Given I enable persistence 10.830
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.500
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.288
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:12.480
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 9.839
# 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 20.564
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.833
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:16.492
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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40.686
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 10.200
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.695
Then persistence is disabled 0.120
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.057
And all notifications have disappeared 10.214
When I delete the persistent partition 2.964
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.434
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.717
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.713
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 9.762
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.053
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.654
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.992
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.250
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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47.086
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 9.849
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.419
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.234
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.136
And all notifications have disappeared 10.232
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.865
And all tps features are enabled 2.354
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:56.036
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 5:17.983
And I enable persistence 23.625
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.278
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.658
And persistence is enabled 2.489
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.488
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 8.904
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.850
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.612
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 9.660
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.217
When I enable persistence 11.119
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.495
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 9.722
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.129
When I try to enable persistence 1.448
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.187
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.329
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.245
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.272
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.822
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.853
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 9.418
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.083
When I try to enable persistence 1.393
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.806
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.063
When I log in to a new session 12.470
And all notifications have disappeared 10.136
# 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" 0.215
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.575
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.241
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.978
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.827
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 9.863
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.018
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.393
When I try to enable persistence 1.396
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.948
When I log in to a new session 11.617
And all notifications have disappeared 9.956
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.350
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.282
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000