Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6021 24 Dec 2025, 11:48

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 30:8.369 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:10.114
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 1:55.490
And I update APT using apt 7.398
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.308
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.916
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.749
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 13.131
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.795
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.288
And persistence is disabled 0.116
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.249
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.996
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 13.646
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.376
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.113
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.861
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.553
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.803
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.357
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.213
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.958
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.035
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36.671
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 10.828
And the system is very low on memory 4.565
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.188
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.642
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 2.542
And I free up some memory 0.969
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.130
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.638
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:53.057
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 12.374
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.399
And all tps features are active 2.260
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.182
When I disable the first tps feature 3.141
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.266
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.751
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.769
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.802
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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16.864
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 10.725
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.084
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.076
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 3.151
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.503
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.775
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 9.408
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.110
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 3.103
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.025
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.129
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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50.339
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 9.388
And the network is plugged 0.070
And Tor is ready 11.050
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.563
When I write some files expected to persist 1.258
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.655
# 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 0.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:0.818
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 9.582
And the network is plugged 0.058
And Tor is ready 10.265
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.142
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.731
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.085
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 12.202
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.399
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.096
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.054
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48.468
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 11.942
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.102
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.463
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:17.401
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 12.707
When I enable persistence 22.788
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.828
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.169
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.679
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 11.988
And the computer reboots Tails 42.566
Given I enable persistence 11.763
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.519
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.090
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:24.707
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 11.552
# 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 29.108
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.186
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:14.081
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.061
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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47.730
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 11.711
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.030
Then persistence is disabled 0.100
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.608
And all notifications have disappeared 10.102
When I delete the persistent partition 2.784
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.392
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:39.387
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 10.159
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.064
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.825
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.057
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.281
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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55.560
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 12.043
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.068
When I try to enable persistence 1.271
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 15.183
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.997
And all notifications have disappeared 9.320
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.354
And all tps features are enabled 2.305
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:2.891
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 5:21.455
And I enable persistence 26.661
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.935
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.683
And persistence is enabled 2.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.491
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.974
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 9.097
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.278
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.849
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.028
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 12.462
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.176
When I enable persistence 10.958
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.075
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.355
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.788
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 11.438
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.751
When I try to enable persistence 2.385
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.143
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.270
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.250
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.070
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.312
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.423
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.336
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 10.074
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.093
When I try to enable persistence 1.338
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.411
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.042
When I log in to a new session 12.597
And all notifications have disappeared 9.455
# 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" 0.200
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.571
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.263
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.923
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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55.706
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 10.420
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.686
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.405
When I try to enable persistence 1.398
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.970
When I log in to a new session 11.879
And all notifications have disappeared 10.220
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.557
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000