Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6027 30 Dec 2025, 11:58

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 33:4.361 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:42.293
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 2:28.317
And I update APT using apt 6.699
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.291
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.984
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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41.470
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 12.796
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.926
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.287
And persistence is disabled 0.128
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.332
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.350
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:9.583
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 14.099
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.406
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.127
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 27.630
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.700
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.828
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.515
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.204
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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38.667
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.620
And the system is very low on memory 5.234
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.311
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.282
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.128
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.533
And I free up some memory 1.050
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.974
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.530
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.800
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:52.416
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 13.874
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.410
And all tps features are active 2.216
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.283
When I disable the first tps feature 2.673
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.070
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.105
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.716
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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17.422
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 11.005
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.080
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.088
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 3.133
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.110
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.076
When I enable the first tps feature 2.716
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.077
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.217
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 10.138
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 3.315
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.520
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.088
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.366
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
54.888
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 10.293
And the network is plugged 0.052
And Tor is ready 13.668
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.615
When I write some files expected to persist 1.384
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.018
# 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" 17.855
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:34.062
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 10.440
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 40.632
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.162
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.769
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.100
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.056
And Tor is ready 13.211
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.385
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.081
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.980
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.081
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53.349
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 13.406
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.123
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.421
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.397
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.973
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:23.184
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.346
When I enable persistence 25.551
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.967
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.429
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.757
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.164
When I cold reboot the computer 10.941
And the computer reboots Tails 43.252
Given I enable persistence 12.405
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.740
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.472
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.154
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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2:53.110
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 13.750
# 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 34.440
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.345
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:33.962
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.375
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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51.903
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 12.562
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.191
Then persistence is disabled 0.125
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.786
And all notifications have disappeared 10.704
When I delete the persistent partition 3.037
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.494
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.228
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.933
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 11.115
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.069
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.112
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:18.322
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.313
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.018
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:1.392
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 12.071
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.280
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.738
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.647
And all notifications have disappeared 9.398
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.608
And all tps features are enabled 2.382
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:38.140
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 5:51.018
And I enable persistence 31.441
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.447
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.826
And persistence is enabled 2.406
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.474
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 9.842
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.913
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.991
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.123
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 11.419
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.115
When I enable persistence 12.238
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.057
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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33.128
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 10.117
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.273
When I try to enable persistence 1.344
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.828
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.521
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.374
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.362
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.829
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.814
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 9.797
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.135
When I try to enable persistence 1.441
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 12.918
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.337
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.046
When I log in to a new session 13.917
And all notifications have disappeared 10.507
# 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" 0.416
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.599
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.266
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.221
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 1.503
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
55.783
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.005
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.152
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.355
When I try to enable persistence 1.335
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.916
When I log in to a new session 14.257
And all notifications have disappeared 9.471
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.097
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000