Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6038 05 Jan 2026, 20:49

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 32:59.256 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:27.142
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.015
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:5.498
And I update APT using apt 10.641
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 10.031
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.971
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.937
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.623
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 15.191
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.833
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.312
And persistence is disabled 0.136
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:23.650
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 18.110
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.426
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.111
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 29.817
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.591
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.278
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.490
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.751
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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46.012
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 14.531
And the system is very low on memory 6.723
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.325
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.668
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.120
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.521
And I free up some memory 1.195
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.292
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.634
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:4.147
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 14.089
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.621
And all tps features are active 2.686
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.525
When I disable the first tps feature 3.147
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.328
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.434
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.189
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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18.347
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 12.011
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.125
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 3.243
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.059
When I enable the first tps feature 2.557
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.908
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
21.894
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.017
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 15.389
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.070
And I disable the first tps feature 3.131
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.169
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.579
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.857
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 11.253
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 15.051
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.595
When I write some files expected to persist 1.561
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.038
# 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" 18.291
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:11.384
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 10.689
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 12.545
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.167
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.370
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:21.851
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 13.952
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.419
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.064
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.199
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.311
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
Tags: @product
55.401
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.308
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.139
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.444
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 21.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.677
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:24.023
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 13.080
When I enable persistence 24.708
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.358
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.695
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.640
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.206
When I cold reboot the computer 11.296
And the computer reboots Tails 44.848
Given I enable persistence 10.579
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.636
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.821
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.150
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.118
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
Tags: @product
3:4.250
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 14.352
# 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 32.055
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.316
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:38.990
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 28.536
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.814
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
54.131
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 12.000
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.775
Then persistence is disabled 0.126
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.836
And all notifications have disappeared 11.912
When I delete the persistent partition 3.024
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.492
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 11.407
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.887
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:17.876
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.270
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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57.798
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 11.969
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.070
When I try to enable persistence 1.272
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.001
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.852
And all notifications have disappeared 9.870
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.430
And all tps features are enabled 2.256
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:15.581
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 5:31.000
And I enable persistence 29.571
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.302
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.629
And persistence is enabled 2.078
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.001
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
34.368
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 9.207
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.497
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.251
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
35.528
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 11.428
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 11.609
When I enable persistence 9.855
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.575
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.714
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 10.623
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.043
When I try to enable persistence 1.354
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.781
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.202
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.229
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.073
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.303
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
56.449
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 10.291
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.078
When I try to enable persistence 1.453
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 13.554
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.304
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.055
When I log in to a new session 13.620
And all notifications have disappeared 10.963
# 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" 0.237
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.512
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.265
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.933
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
54.453
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.656
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 11.632
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.403
When I try to enable persistence 1.352
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.311
When I log in to a new session 11.164
And all notifications have disappeared 10.441
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.316
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000