Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6054 13 Jan 2026, 08:34

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 27:40.143 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:9.688
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.006
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:55.272
And I update APT using apt 6.781
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.334
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.300
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.865
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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27.186
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 10.054
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.815
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.364
And persistence is disabled 0.104
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.691
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:51.741
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.283
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.457
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.289
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 18.522
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.592
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.706
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.569
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.262
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.797
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
Tags: @product
34.566
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 10.060
And the system is very low on memory 1.186
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.215
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.317
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.140
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.896
And I free up some memory 1.119
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 12.878
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:46.264
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 10.502
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.411
And all tps features are active 2.333
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.244
When I disable the first tps feature 2.596
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.114
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.823
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.187
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.697
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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14.886
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 9.353
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.061
When I disable the first tps feature 2.551
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.072
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.050
When I enable the first tps feature 2.546
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.059
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.992
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
15.556
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 enabled and logged in 9.694
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.065
And I disable the first tps feature 2.575
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.090
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
47.506
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 9.648
And the network is plugged 0.073
And Tor is ready 10.004
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.664
When I write some files expected to persist 1.417
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.826
# 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" 17.872
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:24.833
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 9.507
And the network is plugged 0.050
And Tor is ready 10.236
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.193
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.467
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:14.545
And I capture all network traffic 0.005
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 41.950
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.480
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.090
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.247
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.731
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.043
Tags: @product
38.564
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 9.743
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.098
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.739
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.982
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.111
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:56.117
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 9.612
When I enable persistence 10.699
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 14.611
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.077
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 27.262
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.171
When I cold reboot the computer 8.682
And the computer reboots Tails 40.089
Given I enable persistence 12.127
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.528
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.040
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.848
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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2:10.140
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 9.857
# 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 19.375
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.702
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:12.678
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.526
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.263
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
Tags: @product
38.632
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 9.783
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.928
Then persistence is disabled 0.112
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.812
And all notifications have disappeared 9.660
When I delete the persistent partition 2.934
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.722
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:30.519
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 9.590
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.574
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.034
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.242
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.803
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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44.675
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 9.368
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.049
When I try to enable persistence 1.253
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 7.875
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.771
And all notifications have disappeared 9.643
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.444
And all tps features are enabled 2.301
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.967
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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5:44.402
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 with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 5:7.604
And I enable persistence 23.439
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.580
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.703
And persistence is enabled 2.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.282
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.009
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 8.943
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 18.690
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.649
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
26.921
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 9.527
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.435
When I enable persistence 10.575
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.320
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.904
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.012
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 9.119
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.805
When I try to enable persistence 1.364
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.786
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.284
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.212
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.201
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.178
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.974
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
41.925
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 9.609
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.060
When I try to enable persistence 1.266
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.046
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.362
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I log in to a new session 11.837
And all notifications have disappeared 8.875
# 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" 0.343
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.109
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.319
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.945
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.100
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
44.718
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 9.420
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 4.923
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.323
When I try to enable persistence 1.252
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 4.125
When I log in to a new session 11.519
And all notifications have disappeared 9.602
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.361
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.187
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.694
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000