Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 5999 10 Dec 2025, 20:28

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 32:54.880 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:42.564
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.004
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:27.935
And I update APT using apt 7.001
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.614
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.012
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.993
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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28.991
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 11.034
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.098
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.395
And persistence is disabled 0.130
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.333
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.376
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:19.543
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 12.793
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.671
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.126
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 39.526
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.776
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.096
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:16.814
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.668
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.836
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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43.900
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 10.154
And the system is very low on memory 1.192
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.143
When I try to create a persistent partition 5.608
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.446
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.771
And I free up some memory 1.087
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 21.790
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.704
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.229
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
1:59.284
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 10.074
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.422
And all tps features are active 2.801
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.889
When I disable the first tps feature 3.288
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.431
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.910
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:26.538
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.926
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.765
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
Tags: @product
17.798
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 10.245
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.196
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.115
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.168
When I disable the first tps feature 3.454
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.070
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.069
When I enable the first tps feature 3.307
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.087
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.083
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.047
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
23.007
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 9.253
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.127
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.078
And I disable the first tps feature 9.833
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.659
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.054
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.912
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
59.249
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 9.706
And the network is plugged 0.131
And Tor is ready 19.409
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.645
When I write some files expected to persist 1.695
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.958
# 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" 19.700
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.652
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:37.549
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 9.860
And the network is plugged 0.062
And Tor is ready 10.258
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.159
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 8.794
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:24.376
And I capture all network traffic 0.004
And the network is plugged 0.065
And Tor is ready 43.206
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.405
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.093
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.261
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.659
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.049
Tags: @product
47.802
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 11.142
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.116
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 10.884
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 24.658
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.400
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:15.355
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 10.464
When I enable persistence 11.812
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.417
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 43.816
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 29.563
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.192
When I cold reboot the computer 10.520
And the computer reboots Tails 45.665
Given I enable persistence 14.875
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.725
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.112
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.190
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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3:11.607
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 11.155
# 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 35.719
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.880
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:41.862
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 34.988
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.369
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.007
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42.411
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 9.872
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 14.029
Then persistence is disabled 0.140
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 3.909
And all notifications have disappeared 11.103
When I delete the persistent partition 2.913
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.442
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.961
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:42.864
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 11.312
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.072
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 7.782
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.403
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.292
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.772
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.008
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52.210
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 11.289
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.059
When I try to enable persistence 1.494
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 8.599
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.570
And all notifications have disappeared 10.815
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.524
And all tps features are enabled 2.646
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.210
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.752
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:30.470
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 5:47.079
And I enable persistence 26.626
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 12.896
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.668
And persistence is enabled 3.198
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.832
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
32.386
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 LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.398
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.158
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.096
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
28.981
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 10.966
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 4.958
When I enable persistence 10.107
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.107
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.841
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.069
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
27.316
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 9.580
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.890
When I try to enable persistence 1.527
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 5.928
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.399
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.362
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.085
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.298
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.243
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.158
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
49.949
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 9.788
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.067
When I try to enable persistence 1.321
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 6.371
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.277
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.062
When I log in to a new session 13.320
And all notifications have disappeared 11.409
# 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" 0.245
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.554
When I close the "whisperback" window 2.258
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.961
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.309
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.006
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:1.635
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 10.788
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 5.694
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.398
When I try to enable persistence 1.348
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 6.273
When I log in to a new session 15.714
And all notifications have disappeared 12.748
Then the Tor Browser starts 7.089
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.580
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.830
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000