Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6042 07 Jan 2026, 11:27

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 21:48.736 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:38.167
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.003
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:23.247
And I update APT using apt 7.356
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.252
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.310
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.582
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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32.261
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 9.131
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.507
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.352
And persistence is disabled 0.127
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.141
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.328
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.493
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 logged in 9.596
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.386
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.211
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.106
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.568
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.336
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.029
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.209
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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34.312
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 logged in 8.368
And the system is very low on memory 4.430
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.313
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.312
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.195
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.393
And I free up some memory 0.968
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.745
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.146
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 8.777
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.361
And all tps features are active 1.448
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.733
When I disable the first tps feature 3.114
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.550
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.072
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:10.476
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.858
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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14.176
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 7.829
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.131
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.060
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.058
When I disable the first tps feature 2.823
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.062
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.046
When I enable the first tps feature 3.019
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.471
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 7.760
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.090
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
And I disable the first tps feature 2.640
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.862
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.067
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
46.132
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 8.281
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.159
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.297
When I write some files expected to persist 1.673
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.070
# 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" 13.630
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:48.460
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 7.897
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.105
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.146
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.809
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:7.693
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 12.137
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.414
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.074
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.136
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.079
Tags: @product
43.402
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 9.435
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.130
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 15.587
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.166
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.904
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 9.429
When I enable persistence 15.768
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.681
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.862
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.283
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.209
When I cold reboot the computer 9.184
And the computer reboots Tails 37.589
Given I enable persistence 8.239
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.445
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.061
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:15.598
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 8.656
# 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 29.385
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.796
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:5.416
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.159
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.020
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39.915
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 8.172
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.414
Then persistence is disabled 0.092
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.050
And all notifications have disappeared 8.937
When I delete the persistent partition 2.820
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.427
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.401
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 7.943
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.050
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.118
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.052
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.236
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.886
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.045
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44.880
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 8.618
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.178
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.571
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.248
And all notifications have disappeared 8.084
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.319
And all tps features are enabled 1.190
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.595
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.975
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.272
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 34.856
And I enable persistence 20.589
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.575
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.640
And persistence is enabled 1.609
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.353
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 7.447
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.287
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.618
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.342
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 8.128
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 7.899
When I enable persistence 7.075
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.088
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.095
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 7.868
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.690
When I try to enable persistence 1.267
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.384
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.142
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.181
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.055
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.227
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.348
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 7.540
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.100
When I try to enable persistence 1.245
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.748
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I log in to a new session 11.356
And all notifications have disappeared 10.007
# 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" 0.175
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.503
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.234
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 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.601
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.832
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.894
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.309
When I try to enable persistence 2.223
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.000
When I log in to a new session 11.958
And all notifications have disappeared 7.504
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.705
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 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000