Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6057 13 Jan 2026, 13:42

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 19:8.610 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:27.157
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 1:14.481
And I update APT using apt 5.674
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.244
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.757
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.616
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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26.705
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 8.222
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.108
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.264
And persistence is disabled 0.101
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.008
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.005
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:30.344
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 8.499
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.257
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.097
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.638
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.459
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.329
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.802
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.174
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.084
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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26.841
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 7.301
And the system is very low on memory 2.878
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.290
When I try to create a persistent partition 4.761
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.097
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.427
And I free up some memory 0.843
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.164
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.075
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:26.856
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 8.309
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.321
And all tps features are active 1.162
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.777
When I disable the first tps feature 2.463
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.359
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.362
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.835
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.016
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12.444
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.207
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.082
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.049
When I disable the first tps feature 2.465
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.048
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.034
When I enable the first tps feature 2.404
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.051
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.733
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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12.783
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 7.262
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.062
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.057
And I disable the first tps feature 2.513
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.839
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.963
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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37.840
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 7.119
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 8.185
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.212
When I write some files expected to persist 1.183
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.200
# 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" 11.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.445
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:35.409
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 7.106
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 9.190
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.133
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.252
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 57.124
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.014
And Tor is ready 12.045
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.374
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.059
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.900
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.064
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36.349
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.354
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.060
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.478
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.455
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.563
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:34.795
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 8.555
When I enable persistence 12.634
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.249
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.173
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.659
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.149
When I cold reboot the computer 6.207
And the computer reboots Tails 34.663
Given I enable persistence 6.254
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.374
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.735
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.137
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.020
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:4.716
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 with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.690
# 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 26.688
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.002
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.016
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.870
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
Tags: @product
35.899
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.689
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.993
Then persistence is disabled 0.128
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.067
And all notifications have disappeared 7.896
When I delete the persistent partition 2.674
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.449
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:15.463
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 7.403
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.057
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.253
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.524
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.223
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.784
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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38.925
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 with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.535
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.046
When I try to enable persistence 1.175
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 9.484
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.617
And all notifications have disappeared 7.752
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.230
And all tps features are enabled 1.012
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.070
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.779
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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58.883
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 28.933
And I enable persistence 18.448
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 9.485
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.500
And persistence is enabled 1.516
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
20.956
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.030
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 13.311
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.614
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.801
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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23.103
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 7.815
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 6.969
When I enable persistence 6.575
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.043
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.698
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.714
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.601
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 7.341
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.167
When I try to enable persistence 1.318
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 3.175
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.217
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.118
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.049
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.161
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.604
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.003
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 7.233
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.053
When I try to enable persistence 1.186
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 8.599
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.189
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.023
When I log in to a new session 9.733
And all notifications have disappeared 8.374
# 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" 0.163
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.221
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.184
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.192
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.787
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
40.528
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 7.426
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 7.378
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.315
When I try to enable persistence 1.201
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.624
When I log in to a new session 9.407
And all notifications have disappeared 8.956
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.322
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.896
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.871
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000