Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6028 31 Dec 2025, 09:06

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 33:6.520 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:21.302
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 2:2.620
And I update APT using apt 8.128
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.503
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.672
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 13.533
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.262
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.420
And persistence is disabled 0.185
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.999
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:18.964
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 14.727
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.364
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.140
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 24.944
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.582
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.006
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.538
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.592
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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38.922
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 11.003
And the system is very low on memory 5.246
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.319
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.436
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.147
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.583
And I free up some memory 1.190
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.360
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.633
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:5.421
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 13.245
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.450
And all tps features are active 2.134
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.193
When I disable the first tps feature 3.099
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.170
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.404
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:28.681
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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18.693
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 12.461
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.119
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.064
When I disable the first tps feature 3.151
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.080
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.049
When I enable the first tps feature 2.538
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.061
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.073
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.161
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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29.023
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.023
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 16.305
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.083
And I disable the first tps feature 8.643
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.838
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.032
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
56.903
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 10.122
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 14.674
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.628
When I write some files expected to persist 1.367
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.492
# 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" 18.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:9.391
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 10.243
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 12.515
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.218
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.032
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.873
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 13.641
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.377
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.121
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.239
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.613
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.106
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1:10.332
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.069
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 24.320
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.149
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.907
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.954
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:28.947
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 13.476
When I enable persistence 25.357
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.191
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.041
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.570
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.205
When I cold reboot the computer 8.796
And the computer reboots Tails 49.404
Given I enable persistence 12.100
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.614
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.017
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.029
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3:1.051
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 18.321
# 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 34.431
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.764
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:36.726
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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50.077
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 12.093
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.353
Then persistence is disabled 0.124
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.544
And all notifications have disappeared 10.638
When I delete the persistent partition 2.898
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.424
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:36.518
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 11.061
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.103
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.006
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.060
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.286
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.944
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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58.578
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 12.040
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.082
When I try to enable persistence 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 16.597
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.461
And all notifications have disappeared 10.434
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.373
And all tps features are enabled 2.348
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.906
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:20.119
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 5:34.172
And I enable persistence 29.981
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.145
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.637
And persistence is enabled 2.182
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.097
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.279
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.552
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.029
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.134
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.860
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.013
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.856
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 14.497
When I enable persistence 10.022
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.205
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 10.831
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.398
When I try to enable persistence 1.318
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.156
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.293
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.311
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.069
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.417
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.447
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 10.550
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.368
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.336
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.057
When I log in to a new session 14.467
And all notifications have disappeared 10.065
# 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" 0.379
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.592
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.347
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.634
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.351
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.806
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 10.613
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.194
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.396
When I try to enable persistence 1.295
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 5.382
When I log in to a new session 13.106
And all notifications have disappeared 9.241
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.180
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.395
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000