Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6045 08 Jan 2026, 19:17

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 21:37.011 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:36.634
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:22.916
And I update APT using apt 6.325
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.379
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.013
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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31.242
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 9.155
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 16.434
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.280
And persistence is disabled 0.105
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.507
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:47.286
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 9.745
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.520
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.136
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 20.668
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.583
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.207
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:5.122
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.237
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.063
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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30.105
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 8.003
And the system is very low on memory 3.829
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.258
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.048
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.156
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.426
And I free up some memory 0.974
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.351
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.869
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:34.562
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 9.157
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.416
And all tps features are active 1.414
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.166
When I disable the first tps feature 2.572
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.267
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.298
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.146
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.122
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.666
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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14.624
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 8.338
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.106
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.061
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.110
When I disable the first tps feature 3.266
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.083
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.044
When I enable the first tps feature 2.474
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.071
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13.214
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 7.457
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.086
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.058
And I disable the first tps feature 2.601
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.924
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
39.826
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 8.071
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 10.191
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.198
When I write some files expected to persist 1.474
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.105
# 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" 12.768
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.509
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:47.963
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 7.614
And the network is plugged 0.015
And Tor is ready 10.380
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.188
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.536
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:6.626
And I capture all network traffic 0.027
And the network is plugged 0.025
And Tor is ready 12.987
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.397
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.068
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.041
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41.158
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 9.552
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.086
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.428
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 17.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:50.393
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.325
When I enable persistence 14.643
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.632
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.942
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.931
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
When I cold reboot the computer 9.392
And the computer reboots Tails 37.594
Given I enable persistence 7.694
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.482
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.379
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.200
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:15.922
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 9.040
# 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 30.974
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.325
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:4.242
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.340
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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40.413
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 8.473
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.904
Then persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.879
And all notifications have disappeared 8.839
When I delete the persistent partition 2.780
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:24.839
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 8.563
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.067
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.532
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.401
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.274
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.021
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46.325
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 9.135
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.251
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.829
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.997
And all notifications have disappeared 8.149
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.462
And all tps features are enabled 1.223
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.208
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.285
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:9.237
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 34.230
And I enable persistence 21.208
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.262
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.595
And persistence is enabled 1.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.657
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.427
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 7.166
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 16.604
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.656
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.631
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.025
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.436
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.438
When I enable persistence 8.532
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.058
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.165
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.727
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.485
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 8.014
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 10.445
When I try to enable persistence 1.349
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.973
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.197
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.164
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.184
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.095
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.823
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.895
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 8.116
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.249
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.356
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.187
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.024
When I log in to a new session 11.625
And all notifications have disappeared 9.040
# 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" 0.173
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.454
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.185
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.436
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.976
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.334
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.821
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.245
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.092
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.345
When I try to enable persistence 1.257
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.900
When I log in to a new session 11.939
And all notifications have disappeared 9.181
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.837
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.021
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000