Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6029 31 Dec 2025, 12:44

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 19:41.153 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.196
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.202
And I update APT using apt 5.916
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.279
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.796
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.556
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.752
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 8.527
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.765
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.255
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:34.636
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 8.364
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.311
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.122
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.243
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.487
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.386
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.486
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.179
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.053
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.015
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28.838
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 7.659
And the system is very low on memory 3.976
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.328
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.367
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.104
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.376
And I free up some memory 1.120
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.850
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.052
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.641
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 8.131
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.298
And all tps features are active 1.107
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.918
When I disable the first tps feature 2.681
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.976
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.551
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.986
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.990
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
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12.865
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 7.441
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.058
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.079
When I disable the first tps feature 2.505
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.050
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.041
When I enable the first tps feature 2.523
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.655
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 7.166
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.458
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.845
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.641
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.393
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 7.253
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 9.705
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.163
When I write some files expected to persist 1.111
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.588
# 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" 11.555
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.361
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:37.188
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 7.245
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 8.385
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.111
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.288
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.406
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.188
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.356
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.072
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.098
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.058
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36.308
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 8.476
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.068
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.962
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 14.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:39.403
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 8.615
When I enable persistence 13.755
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.259
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.087
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 26.051
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.127
When I cold reboot the computer 9.926
And the computer reboots Tails 34.675
Given I enable persistence 6.273
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.419
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.080
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:6.265
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 8.210
# 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 27.085
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.636
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 58.539
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.315
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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36.360
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 7.749
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.329
Then persistence is disabled 0.083
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.213
And all notifications have disappeared 7.851
When I delete the persistent partition 2.779
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.353
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.969
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.605
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 7.552
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.061
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.358
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.417
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.216
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.824
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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39.862
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 7.788
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.153
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.744
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.597
And all notifications have disappeared 7.946
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.314
And all tps features are enabled 1.063
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.868
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.700
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 30.064
And I enable persistence 18.675
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.780
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.592
And persistence is enabled 1.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.900
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.120
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.284
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.495
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.867
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.754
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 8.328
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.191
When I enable persistence 6.598
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.056
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.578
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.002
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.008
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 7.430
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.689
When I try to enable persistence 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.151
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.180
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.151
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.208
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.878
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.758
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.987
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 7.663
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.221
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.128
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.196
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.025
When I log in to a new session 10.292
And all notifications have disappeared 8.965
# 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" 0.163
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.080
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.150
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.236
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.820
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.341
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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40.828
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 7.777
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.487
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.282
When I try to enable persistence 1.258
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.026
When I log in to a new session 9.566
And all notifications have disappeared 8.132
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.407
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.888
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.928
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000