Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6019 22 Dec 2025, 11:57

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 31:47.522 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:44.707
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 2:27.940
And I update APT using apt 8.950
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.325
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.789
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.381
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.297
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.372
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And persistence is disabled 0.132
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.257
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.426
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 14.485
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.354
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.110
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 23.270
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.592
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.927
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.385
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.215
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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38.921
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 11.364
And the system is very low on memory 5.322
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.274
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.052
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.165
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.543
And I free up some memory 1.035
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.377
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.786
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.326
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.838
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 12.927
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.458
And all tps features are active 2.162
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.385
When I disable the first tps feature 3.044
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.169
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.767
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.661
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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17.137
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 10.949
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.085
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.118
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.074
When I disable the first tps feature 2.900
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.047
When I enable the first tps feature 2.654
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.762
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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16.757
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 10.586
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
And I disable the first tps feature 2.781
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.137
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
55.465
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 10.761
And the network is plugged 0.065
And Tor is ready 13.415
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.607
When I write some files expected to persist 1.534
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.004
# 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" 18.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:3.565
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 10.422
And the network is plugged 0.082
And Tor is ready 11.771
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.148
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.853
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.305
And I capture all network traffic 0.008
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 13.243
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.375
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.070
Tags: @product
52.415
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 12.772
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.128
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.453
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:21.599
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 13.816
When I enable persistence 25.092
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.926
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.161
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.803
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.193
When I cold reboot the computer 10.971
And the computer reboots Tails 43.824
Given I enable persistence 12.430
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.644
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.534
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:32.453
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 13.003
# 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 31.054
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.664
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:17.894
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.450
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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49.657
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 11.796
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.446
Then persistence is disabled 0.123
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.742
And all notifications have disappeared 10.253
When I delete the persistent partition 2.832
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.461
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.969
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 11.313
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.373
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.960
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.260
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:9.966
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 10.450
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.382
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.781
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 24.995
And all notifications have disappeared 9.624
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.507
And all tps features are enabled 2.236
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:6.663
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 5:20.317
And I enable persistence 30.984
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.271
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.881
And persistence is enabled 2.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.388
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.037
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 9.359
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.031
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.092
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.423
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 11.869
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.044
When I enable persistence 12.208
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.051
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.832
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 10.182
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.572
When I try to enable persistence 1.335
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.477
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.305
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.303
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.092
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.325
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.238
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.110
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.281
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 9.936
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.627
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.290
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.051
When I log in to a new session 12.900
And all notifications have disappeared 11.229
# 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" 0.302
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.810
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.423
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.139
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.019
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 9.968
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.069
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.386
When I try to enable persistence 1.395
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.996
When I log in to a new session 13.290
And all notifications have disappeared 10.443
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.151
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.318
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000