Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6040 06 Jan 2026, 12:11

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 27:48.622 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:2.375
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 1:48.939
And I update APT using apt 6.156
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.295
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.983
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.869
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 9.967
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.900
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.284
And persistence is disabled 0.106
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.932
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:45.727
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 10.786
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.306
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.103
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 17.003
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.574
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.578
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:9.046
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.252
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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33.575
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.001
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 9.963
And the system is very low on memory 0.962
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.244
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.431
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.154
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.892
And I free up some memory 1.079
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.222
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.625
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.884
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:43.903
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 10.177
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.310
And all tps features are active 2.170
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.283
When I disable the first tps feature 2.628
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.165
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.895
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.935
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.337
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.017
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15.664
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 10.038
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.096
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 2.553
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.065
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.582
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.066
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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15.989
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 10.076
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.079
And I disable the first tps feature 2.604
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.098
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.917
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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48.393
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 9.762
And the network is plugged 0.075
And Tor is ready 10.326
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.609
When I write some files expected to persist 1.651
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.703
# 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" 18.264
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.496
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:58.680
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 9.678
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 11.056
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.196
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.622
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.013
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 14.055
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.568
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.110
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.085
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
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43.092
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.787
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.287
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 20.938
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.380
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:55.513
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 10.043
When I enable persistence 10.923
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.658
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.166
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.213
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.224
When I cold reboot the computer 8.595
And the computer reboots Tails 40.496
Given I enable persistence 10.768
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.518
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.707
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.196
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.034
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2:22.886
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 15.861
# 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 20.498
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.849
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:17.070
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.544
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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40.626
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 9.823
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.432
Then persistence is disabled 0.098
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.903
And all notifications have disappeared 9.969
When I delete the persistent partition 3.001
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.321
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 9.942
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.062
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.749
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.291
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
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47.103
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 10.188
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.095
When I try to enable persistence 1.318
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.038
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.942
And all notifications have disappeared 9.852
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.451
And all tps features are enabled 2.237
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.979
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.774
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:59.490
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 5:19.605
And I enable persistence 24.859
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.140
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.741
And persistence is enabled 2.144
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
30.388
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 9.186
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.485
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.715
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.889
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.213
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.014
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.683
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.337
When I enable persistence 9.708
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.068
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.845
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.545
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 9.761
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.797
When I try to enable persistence 1.446
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.591
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.243
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.212
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.142
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.940
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 9.732
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.065
When I try to enable persistence 1.456
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.821
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I log in to a new session 13.333
And all notifications have disappeared 9.344
# 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" 0.238
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.609
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.270
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.571
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.231
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.319
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 9.751
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 6.142
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.542
When I try to enable persistence 1.364
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.376
When I log in to a new session 12.025
And all notifications have disappeared 10.011
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.002
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.124
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000