Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6022 25 Dec 2025, 11:39

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 29:23.328 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:9.278
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:54.064
And I update APT using apt 7.433
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.380
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.741
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 11.721
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.465
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:52.564
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 12.764
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.338
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.104
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 22.875
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.486
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.685
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.031
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.207
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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37.553
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 logged in 10.955
And the system is very low on memory 5.033
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.209
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.319
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.174
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.479
And I free up some memory 0.925
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.911
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.121
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:49.159
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 12.120
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.366
And all tps features are active 2.026
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.151
When I disable the first tps feature 2.753
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.105
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.669
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.114
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.853
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.771
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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15.437
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 9.833
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
When I disable the first tps feature 2.621
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.064
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.048
When I enable the first tps feature 2.509
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.301
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 9.198
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.087
And I disable the first tps feature 2.759
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.130
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.968
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 9.550
And the network is plugged 0.055
And Tor is ready 11.416
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.542
When I write some files expected to persist 1.415
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.659
# 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" 17.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.390
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:57.467
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 9.457
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 11.188
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.183
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.699
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.021
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 13.110
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.431
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.066
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.084
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50.704
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.814
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.143
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.910
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 19.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:5.927
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 12.527
When I enable persistence 21.358
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.878
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 39.941
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.127
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.157
When I cold reboot the computer 7.248
And the computer reboots Tails 39.213
Given I enable persistence 11.911
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.569
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.831
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:24.555
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 11.818
# 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 30.523
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.347
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:13.547
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.319
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.377
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
47.985
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 11.584
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 17.354
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.390
And all notifications have disappeared 10.144
When I delete the persistent partition 2.986
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.401
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.735
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 10.646
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.750
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.008
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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52.381
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 10.180
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.081
When I try to enable persistence 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 14.820
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.391
And all notifications have disappeared 9.372
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.337
And all tps features are enabled 2.037
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.014
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:5.127
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 5:23.749
And I enable persistence 27.332
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.355
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.590
And persistence is enabled 2.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.912
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 9.255
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 19.076
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.581
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.959
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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34.755
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 11.340
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 10.300
When I enable persistence 10.730
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.566
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 11.272
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.217
When I try to enable persistence 1.325
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.725
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.265
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.063
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.280
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.716
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 9.975
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 11.962
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I log in to a new session 11.709
And all notifications have disappeared 10.335
# 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" 0.262
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.542
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.272
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.800
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
51.487
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 10.190
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.755
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.351
When I try to enable persistence 1.298
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.017
When I log in to a new session 11.870
And all notifications have disappeared 8.865
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.922
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.970
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000