Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6020 23 Dec 2025, 11:02

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 20:0.898 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:28.975
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:16.446
And I update APT using apt 5.491
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.263
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.773
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.890
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.391
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 8.701
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.172
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And persistence is disabled 0.090
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:34.906
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.316
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.375
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.095
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.568
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.466
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.424
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.437
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.170
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
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27.600
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 7.536
And the system is very low on memory 3.202
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.176
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.369
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.122
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.388
And I free up some memory 0.857
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.886
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.646
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:27.395
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 8.208
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.307
And all tps features are active 1.083
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.884
When I disable the first tps feature 2.524
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.092
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.780
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.328
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.842
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
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12.808
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.575
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.094
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I disable the first tps feature 2.444
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.035
When I enable the first tps feature 2.413
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.053
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.715
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.155
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 2.526
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.852
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.194
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.244
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.655
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.176
When I write some files expected to persist 1.115
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.199
# 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" 11.785
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.561
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:8.111
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.197
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 40.556
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.127
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.516
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.157
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.992
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.378
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.079
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
Tags: @product
37.695
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.483
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.061
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.871
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.278
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:35.991
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.564
When I enable persistence 13.477
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.075
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.137
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.860
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
When I cold reboot the computer 6.283
And the computer reboots Tails 34.826
Given I enable persistence 6.455
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.433
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.565
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
2:8.698
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.910
# 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 26.890
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.124
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 59.527
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
36.080
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.801
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.961
Then persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.168
And all notifications have disappeared 8.125
When I delete the persistent partition 2.597
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.321
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.624
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.879
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.537
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.269
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.791
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.194
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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38.902
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.466
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.194
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.762
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.154
And all notifications have disappeared 7.987
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.245
And all tps features are enabled 0.970
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.850
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 29.192
And I enable persistence 17.764
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.838
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.584
And persistence is enabled 1.471
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.824
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
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 7.051
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.267
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.505
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.542
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 7.913
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.306
When I enable persistence 6.357
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.745
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.765
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.501
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.447
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.002
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.162
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.177
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.047
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.202
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.007
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.226
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.328
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.243
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.028
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.190
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 10.199
And all notifications have disappeared 8.719
# 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" 0.165
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.076
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.150
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.244
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.341
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.384
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.488
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.351
When I try to enable persistence 1.233
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.852
When I log in to a new session 8.994
And all notifications have disappeared 8.830
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.228
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.972
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000