Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6041 07 Jan 2026, 07:37

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 19:36.272 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:30.171
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:17.321
And I update APT using apt 5.717
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.297
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.602
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 8.376
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.456
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.224
And persistence is disabled 0.096
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.663
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:33.567
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 8.336
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.291
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.998
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.545
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.314
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.772
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.170
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.045
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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26.673
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 7.251
And the system is very low on memory 3.182
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.156
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.514
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.113
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.346
And I free up some memory 0.842
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.207
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:27.732
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 8.178
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
And all tps features are active 1.066
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.990
When I disable the first tps feature 2.550
Then all tps features but the first one are active 0.976
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.630
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.862
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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12.857
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 enabled and logged in 7.594
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.057
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.059
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.453
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.049
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.043
When I enable the first tps feature 2.424
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.071
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.809
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 7.316
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.064
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.050
And I disable the first tps feature 2.503
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.843
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.030
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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39.077
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 7.121
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.704
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.170
When I write some files expected to persist 1.002
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.233
# 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" 11.828
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.209
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:40.364
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 7.091
And the network is plugged 0.018
And Tor is ready 12.193
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.106
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.198
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.748
And I capture all network traffic 0.003
And the network is plugged 0.019
And Tor is ready 11.435
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.375
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.080
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.881
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.068
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36.065
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.248
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.063
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.715
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 15.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:39.257
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 8.306
When I enable persistence 13.142
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.519
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.672
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.874
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.142
When I cold reboot the computer 9.877
And the computer reboots Tails 34.650
Given I enable persistence 6.114
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.437
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.382
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.632
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:6.653
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 enabled and logged in 7.533
# 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 27.974
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.951
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.331
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.000
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.013
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36.538
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 7.794
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.191
Then persistence is disabled 0.128
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.295
And all notifications have disappeared 8.133
When I delete the persistent partition 2.607
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:16.923
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 7.389
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.041
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.376
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.896
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
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39.588
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 7.480
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.100
When I try to enable persistence 1.234
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.775
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.617
And all notifications have disappeared 8.048
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.312
And all tps features are enabled 0.966
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.569
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.230
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 29.784
And I enable persistence 19.294
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.155
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.578
And persistence is enabled 1.417
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.135
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.152
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.129
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.451
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.571
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.610
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.555
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 7.853
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.557
When I enable persistence 6.349
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.040
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.753
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.640
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.215
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 7.376
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.374
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.715
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.177
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.120
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.061
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.158
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.977
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
39.709
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 7.292
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.203
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.751
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.208
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 9.105
And all notifications have disappeared 8.473
# 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" 0.260
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.138
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.177
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.291
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.729
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.017
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.527
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 7.339
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.576
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.295
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.489
When I log in to a new session 9.058
And all notifications have disappeared 8.447
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.320
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.798
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.689
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000