Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6049 09 Jan 2026, 11:38

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 21:1.562 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:35.709
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 1:22.484
And I update APT using apt 6.054
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.263
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.907
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.590
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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30.125
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 8.985
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 15.453
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.271
And persistence is disabled 0.097
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.584
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.461
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 9.288
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.358
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 19.035
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.498
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.401
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:2.239
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.416
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.125
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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30.096
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 7.830
And the system is very low on memory 3.902
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.149
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.404
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.101
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.435
And I free up some memory 1.015
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 9.800
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.670
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:41.892
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 8.348
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.343
And all tps features are active 1.332
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.231
When I disable the first tps feature 2.615
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.323
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 20.099
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.495
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.047
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13.446
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 8.007
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.052
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.059
When I disable the first tps feature 2.602
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.056
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.029
When I enable the first tps feature 2.462
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.043
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
13.118
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 7.398
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.086
And I disable the first tps feature 2.546
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.984
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.040
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.710
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
41.107
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 7.529
And the network is plugged 0.021
And Tor is ready 9.957
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.184
When I write some files expected to persist 1.439
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.588
# 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" 12.386
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.227
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:44.487
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 7.549
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 10.151
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.152
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.983
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:3.444
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.022
And Tor is ready 12.587
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.384
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.082
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.157
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.090
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40.009
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.581
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.081
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 13.506
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.840
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.343
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:47.431
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 8.861
When I enable persistence 14.094
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.464
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.628
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.031
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.131
When I cold reboot the computer 10.339
And the computer reboots Tails 36.847
Given I enable persistence 7.972
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.424
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.478
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.156
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.876
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.032
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2:13.141
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 8.806
# 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 29.622
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.520
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:3.705
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.485
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.015
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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38.492
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 8.694
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 13.541
Then persistence is disabled 0.140
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 4.512
And all notifications have disappeared 8.476
When I delete the persistent partition 2.780
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.346
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.721
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.256
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 7.530
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.101
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.014
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:4.406
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.203
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.936
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.023
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42.682
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 8.439
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.052
When I try to enable persistence 1.246
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 10.644
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.564
And all notifications have disappeared 8.276
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.240
And all tps features are enabled 1.077
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.140
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.837
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:4.589
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 32.017
And I enable persistence 20.371
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.705
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.555
And persistence is enabled 1.939
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.751
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.754
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 7.291
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 14.866
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.596
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.391
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 8.391
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 8.491
When I enable persistence 6.722
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.038
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.812
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
25.613
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 7.717
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 8.760
When I try to enable persistence 2.276
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.263
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.143
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.240
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.065
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.156
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.989
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.631
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
46.258
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 7.955
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.045
When I try to enable persistence 2.296
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 9.063
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 0.025
When I log in to a new session 11.675
And all notifications have disappeared 9.546
# 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" 0.451
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.564
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.170
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.338
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.921
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.205
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.497
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 7.763
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.658
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.315
When I try to enable persistence 1.188
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.817
When I log in to a new session 9.451
And all notifications have disappeared 9.699
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.810
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.807
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000