Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6051 11 Jan 2026, 11:48

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 26:38.507 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:59.498
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 1:45.901
And I update APT using apt 6.240
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.288
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.068
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.929
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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25.776
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 9.749
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.764
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.301
And persistence is disabled 0.108
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.851
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.059
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:43.094
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 logged in 9.369
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.371
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.114
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.574
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.566
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.577
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:8.246
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.219
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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30.950
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 logged in 9.208
And the system is very low on memory 0.912
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.149
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.883
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.174
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.508
And I free up some memory 1.016
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 11.460
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.636
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:37.623
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 9.495
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.299
And all tps features are active 2.074
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.161
When I disable the first tps feature 2.573
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.935
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 3.129
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.918
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.035
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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14.865
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 9.257
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.066
When I disable the first tps feature 2.605
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.063
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.053
When I enable the first tps feature 2.549
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.060
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.997
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
14.928
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 9.130
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.073
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.063
And I disable the first tps feature 2.533
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.070
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.943
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
43.949
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 9.114
And the network is plugged 0.076
And Tor is ready 10.199
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.586
When I write some files expected to persist 1.360
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 4.820
# 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" 17.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.385
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:53.151
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 9.042
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 10.134
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.151
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.455
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:12.407
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.051
And Tor is ready 13.118
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.398
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.082
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.246
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.887
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.051
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39.441
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 9.803
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.079
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.535
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 18.022
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.314
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:53.404
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 9.927
When I enable persistence 12.234
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.667
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.082
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.904
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.155
When I cold reboot the computer 5.723
And the computer reboots Tails 39.674
Given I enable persistence 12.034
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.587
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.227
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:10.286
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 9.843
# 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 19.718
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.619
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:13.808
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 19.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.252
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
39.089
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 9.414
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.573
Then persistence is disabled 0.111
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.613
And all notifications have disappeared 9.811
When I delete the persistent partition 3.125
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.439
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.831
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:31.493
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 9.210
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.141
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.760
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.322
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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45.427
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 9.697
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.051
When I try to enable persistence 1.286
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 7.894
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.975
And all notifications have disappeared 9.724
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.449
And all tps features are enabled 2.207
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.139
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.894
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
5:41.099
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 5:3.819
And I enable persistence 22.803
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 11.582
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.708
And persistence is enabled 2.185
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.899
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 8.770
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 17.381
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.987
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.229
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 9.468
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.249
When I enable persistence 10.892
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.103
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
24.120
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 9.313
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.873
When I try to enable persistence 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.624
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.275
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.060
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.278
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.120
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
43.304
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 9.078
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.064
When I try to enable persistence 1.264
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.495
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.313
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.077
When I log in to a new session 12.085
And all notifications have disappeared 9.747
# 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" 0.295
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.538
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.242
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.920
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
52.874
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 9.553
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.020
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.374
When I try to enable persistence 1.294
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.244
When I log in to a new session 13.543
And all notifications have disappeared 11.462
Then the Tor Browser starts 5.924
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000