Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6048 08 Jan 2026, 20:47

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 29:48.758 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:5.511
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:52.528
And I update APT using apt 5.586
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.340
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.182
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 11.694
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.785
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.345
And persistence is disabled 0.170
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:0.264
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 10.192
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.672
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.168
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.818
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.299
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.990
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.405
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.640
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.018
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49.855
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 9.967
And the system is very low on memory 1.635
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.324
When I try to create a persistent partition 7.116
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.130
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.694
And I free up some memory 1.099
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 25.688
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 1.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.415
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:9.240
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 10.611
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.308
And all tps features are active 2.009
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.462
When I disable the first tps feature 2.673
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.787
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.343
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:37.323
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.793
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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15.697
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 9.350
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.111
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.080
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 3.156
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.103
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.073
When I enable the first tps feature 2.609
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.083
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.062
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.213
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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24.866
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 9.682
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.101
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.102
And I disable the first tps feature 11.036
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.884
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:13.747
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 14.357
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 14.759
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.731
When I write some files expected to persist 1.607
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.974
# 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" 21.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.284
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:4.323
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 9.491
And the network is plugged 0.061
And Tor is ready 10.112
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.720
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.584
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.060
And Tor is ready 13.437
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.423
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.078
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.062
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48.578
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 10.503
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.123
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.801
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 25.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:1.962
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 14.360
When I enable persistence 11.068
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.028
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.228
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 28.481
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.151
When I cold reboot the computer 9.228
And the computer reboots Tails 40.716
Given I enable persistence 10.491
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.566
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.468
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.170
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.995
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.014
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2:36.034
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 9.482
# 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 22.442
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.681
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:29.348
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 27.080
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.548
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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40.805
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 10.200
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.202
Then persistence is disabled 0.109
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.916
And all notifications have disappeared 9.887
When I delete the persistent partition 3.029
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.460
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:33.545
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 enabled and logged in 9.535
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.668
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:15.957
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.327
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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47.923
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 10.119
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.219
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.109
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.236
And all notifications have disappeared 10.001
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.473
And all tps features are enabled 2.520
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.188
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.950
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:48.856
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 5:10.814
And I enable persistence 23.201
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.940
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.663
And persistence is enabled 2.235
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.611
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.586
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 9.316
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.615
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.655
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.777
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.108
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 9.827
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 5.110
When I enable persistence 10.603
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.053
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.513
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.759
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
29.096
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 10.631
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.448
When I try to enable persistence 1.347
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.635
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.281
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.253
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.208
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.791
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 9.496
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.063
When I try to enable persistence 1.227
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.141
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.319
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.045
When I log in to a new session 11.826
And all notifications have disappeared 11.234
# 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" 0.254
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.598
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.456
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.969
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.155
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
45.778
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 9.913
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.424
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.377
When I try to enable persistence 1.332
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.287
When I log in to a new session 12.476
And all notifications have disappeared 9.203
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.460
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.303
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000