Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5981 03 Dec 2025, 15:49

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 42:5.756 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:21.860
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.007
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:3.352
And I update APT using apt 8.058
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 9.502
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.794
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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43.028
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 15.049
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.678
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.429
And persistence is disabled 0.129
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.741
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.147
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:20.037
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 14.731
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.424
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.135
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 31.620
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.884
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.194
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:19.719
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.250
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.076
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.044
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.009
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45.294
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 12.405
And the system is very low on memory 4.746
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.292
When I try to create a persistent partition 9.025
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.152
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.802
And I free up some memory 1.590
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 13.577
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.701
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.393
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:26.400
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 13.896
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 1.043
And all tps features are active 2.799
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 3.182
When I disable the first tps feature 11.257
Then all tps features but the first one are active 3.058
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.978
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:33.972
Then all tps features but the first one are active 4.211
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.747
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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17.920
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 11.619
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.088
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.062
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.067
When I disable the first tps feature 3.181
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.105
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.057
When I enable the first tps feature 2.615
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.063
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.060
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.941
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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17.115
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 10.373
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.126
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.084
And I disable the first tps feature 3.278
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.202
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.050
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.873
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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58.154
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 10.714
And the network is plugged 0.063
And Tor is ready 13.557
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.601
When I write some files expected to persist 1.419
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.348
# 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" 19.448
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.169
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:20.332
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 10.690
And the network is plugged 0.057
And Tor is ready 17.058
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.175
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 12.109
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.521
And I capture all network traffic 0.006
And the network is plugged 0.059
And Tor is ready 13.886
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.496
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.096
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.172
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.946
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.065
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57.221
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.719
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.122
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 18.678
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 23.702
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.647
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:33.426
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 14.023
When I enable persistence 24.624
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.918
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.466
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 30.225
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.209
When I cold reboot the computer 11.443
And the computer reboots Tails 46.671
Given I enable persistence 15.705
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.616
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.303
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.219
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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3:3.649
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 13.252
# 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 33.470
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.704
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:44.619
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 22.602
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.430
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.012
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51.127
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 10.850
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 18.083
Then persistence is disabled 0.134
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 7.509
And all notifications have disappeared 11.199
When I delete the persistent partition 2.928
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.421
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.456
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:53.235
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 12.405
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.065
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.988
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:28.487
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.288
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.947
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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1:1.458
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 12.115
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.056
When I try to enable persistence 1.302
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 19.079
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.496
And all notifications have disappeared 10.669
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.315
And all tps features are enabled 2.329
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.093
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.163
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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13:35.961
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 12:49.358
And I enable persistence 28.963
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.404
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.776
And persistence is enabled 2.458
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 4.799
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:0.226
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 35.362
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 24.052
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.811
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.795
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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58.744
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 14.176
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 32.548
When I enable persistence 9.353
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.067
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.598
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.600
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 12.714
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 14.335
When I try to enable persistence 1.377
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 4.920
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.289
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.277
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.059
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.349
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.277
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.036
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.884
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 11.814
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.066
When I try to enable persistence 1.297
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 15.877
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.330
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.138
When I log in to a new session 14.342
And all notifications have disappeared 11.143
# 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" 0.270
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.596
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.570
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.248
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 2.317
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:1.075
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 11.074
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 13.839
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.458
When I try to enable persistence 1.376
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 3.799
When I log in to a new session 14.905
And all notifications have disappeared 10.594
Then the Tor Browser starts 3.764
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.262
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.559
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000