Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6093 26 Jan 2026, 20:09

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 27:20.216 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:39.125
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:26.388
And I update APT using apt 5.762
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.244
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.730
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.838
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:38.099
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 8.722
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.611
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.278
And persistence is disabled 0.088
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 1:8.398
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.726
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:17.846
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 9.010
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 2.122
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.279
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 54.152
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.545
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.478
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.049
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.162
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.558
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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37.911
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 7.424
And the system is very low on memory 12.109
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.853
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.393
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.089
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.404
And I free up some memory 0.871
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.707
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.056
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.099
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:2.383
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 8.765
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.583
And all tps features are active 1.275
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.861
When I disable the first tps feature 3.452
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.077
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 30.801
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:13.490
Then all tps features but the first one are active 1.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.688
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.019
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12.912
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 7.455
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.104
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.055
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.050
When I disable the first tps feature 2.624
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.047
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.045
When I enable the first tps feature 2.426
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.047
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.913
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
12.909
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 enabled and logged in 7.206
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.091
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.056
And I disable the first tps feature 2.638
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.874
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.091
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.383
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 7.289
And the network is plugged 0.017
And Tor is ready 12.884
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.197
When I write some files expected to persist 1.227
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 17.842
# 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" 11.923
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.451
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:44.599
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 7.350
And the network is plugged 0.016
And Tor is ready 9.353
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.117
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 16.442
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.324
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.020
And Tor is ready 11.379
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.392
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.091
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.778
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.044
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58.252
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 8.685
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.263
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 16.384
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 31.918
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:4.558
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 8.952
When I enable persistence 34.852
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.159
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 38.438
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.334
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.244
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.478
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 25.129
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.129
When I cold reboot the computer 7.405
And the computer reboots Tails 35.600
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.264
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.191
Given I enable persistence 6.784
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.073
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.197
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 8.149
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.173
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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2:44.717
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 8.248
# 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 59.516
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.042
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:1.669
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 21.241
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.042
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.006
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1:13.937
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 7.939
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.718
Then persistence is disabled 0.086
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 39.407
And all notifications have disappeared 8.806
When I delete the persistent partition 2.639
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.562
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:33.723
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 7.671
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.078
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 14.028
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:11.746
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.028
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48.955
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 7.663
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.110
When I try to enable persistence 1.170
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 17.904
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.835
And all notifications have disappeared 7.897
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.258
And all tps features are enabled 1.073
And all tps features but the first one are active 1.041
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.269
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:32.527
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 50.663
And I enable persistence 28.861
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 10.965
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.610
And persistence is enabled 1.426
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.692
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
22.967
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.016
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 7.239
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 15.102
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.149
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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51.987
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 7.961
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 35.697
When I enable persistence 6.608
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.045
And persistence is successfully enabled 1.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.064
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.711
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 7.682
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 32.558
When I try to enable persistence 1.265
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.638
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.181
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.234
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.062
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.177
Then persistence is successfully enabled 0.910
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.222
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
53.789
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 7.444
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.116
When I try to enable persistence 1.211
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 20.254
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.191
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.034
When I log in to a new session 11.211
And all notifications have disappeared 8.775
# 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" 0.145
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.071
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.170
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.307
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.856
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.072
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:7.917
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 7.532
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 33.160
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.290
When I try to enable persistence 1.174
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.738
When I log in to a new session 11.069
And all notifications have disappeared 7.846
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.293
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.131
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000