Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5979 02 Dec 2025, 01:07

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 38:11.841 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:25.794
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:7.949
And I update APT using apt 7.127
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.543
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.174
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.440
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 13.494
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 20.490
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.360
And persistence is disabled 0.148
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.945
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.087
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:10.047
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 13.868
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.369
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.149
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 26.085
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.542
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.794
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.918
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.244
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.074
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.903
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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43.287
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 11.158
And the system is very low on memory 5.537
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.307
When I try to create a persistent partition 7.211
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.155
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.562
And I free up some memory 1.032
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.613
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.707
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.065
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:1.085
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.008
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 14.693
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.488
And all tps features are active 2.791
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.798
When I disable the first tps feature 2.744
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.119
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.284
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:22.622
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.542
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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17.493
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 10.990
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.129
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.072
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.065
When I disable the first tps feature 3.371
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.087
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.056
When I enable the first tps feature 2.594
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.072
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.919
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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22.607
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 11.618
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.954
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.305
And I disable the first tps feature 5.447
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 4.222
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.058
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.776
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
57.081
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 10.764
And the network is plugged 0.117
And Tor is ready 13.826
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.636
When I write some files expected to persist 1.516
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.071
# 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" 19.148
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.342
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:22.190
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.010
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 10.671
And the network is plugged 0.164
And Tor is ready 19.888
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.165
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.559
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.794
And I capture all network traffic 0.009
And the network is plugged 0.078
And Tor is ready 13.175
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.380
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.089
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.056
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1:1.221
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 stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 18.438
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.104
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.570
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 22.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.447
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:37.927
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 13.651
When I enable persistence 26.595
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.459
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 40.826
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 37.282
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.183
When I cold reboot the computer 11.085
And the computer reboots Tails 46.089
Given I enable persistence 13.309
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 1.106
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.158
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.179
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.101
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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2:48.274
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 18.742
# 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 33.033
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.659
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:23.114
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 23.725
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.372
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
54.571
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 12.609
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.131
Then persistence is disabled 0.145
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.488
And all notifications have disappeared 11.386
When I delete the persistent partition 3.380
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.429
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:52.228
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 12.831
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.068
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.236
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:27.452
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.639
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:5.378
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 13.256
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.047
When I try to enable persistence 1.320
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.718
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.922
And all notifications have disappeared 10.074
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.445
And all tps features are enabled 2.317
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.275
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.892
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
8:7.140
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 6:48.034
And I enable persistence 57.014
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 17.751
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 1.896
And persistence is enabled 2.441
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 3.362
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
49.595
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 20.187
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 28.559
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.847
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.861
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:16.979
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 26.118
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 19.312
When I enable persistence 1:28.968
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.052
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.527
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 5.857
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:19.010
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 53.694
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.858
When I try to enable persistence 1.410
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.802
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.368
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.872
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.097
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.382
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.523
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.283
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:4.734
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 10.789
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.069
When I try to enable persistence 1.309
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 16.028
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.454
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.185
When I log in to a new session 15.746
And all notifications have disappeared 10.963
# 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" 2.213
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.639
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.298
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.787
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.248
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.804
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:12.750
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 22.024
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.874
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 1.396
When I try to enable persistence 1.301
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.723
When I log in to a new session 15.126
And all notifications have disappeared 9.840
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.857
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.605
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.962
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000