Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_stable 6001 11 Dec 2025, 08:11

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 34:54.729 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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2:48.187
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.012
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 2:31.891
And I update APT using apt 7.251
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 7.191
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 1.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.626
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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44.022
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.171
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 13.971
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 21.470
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.443
And persistence is disabled 0.131
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 8.004
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.410
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:33.329
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 without a persistent partition and logged in 14.717
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.432
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.128
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 36.653
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.831
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.142
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:28.742
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.625
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.055
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.863
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
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43.503
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 11.555
And the system is very low on memory 5.595
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.783
When I try to create a persistent partition 6.545
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.183
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.578
And I free up some memory 1.024
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 14.586
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.650
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.186
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
2:8.490
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 12.602
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.539
And all tps features are active 3.056
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 2.861
When I disable the first tps feature 3.364
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.048
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 13.290
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:28.322
Then all tps features but the first one are active 2.404
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.086
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.026
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18.657
Before features/support/hooks.rb:266 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:273 0.066
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 12.114
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.157
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.119
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.078
When I disable the first tps feature 3.186
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.167
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.060
When I enable the first tps feature 2.623
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.067
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.082
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.893
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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18.063
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 11.150
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.161
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.075
And I disable the first tps feature 3.248
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 3.348
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.077
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.117
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
58.728
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 11.228
And the network is plugged 0.097
And Tor is ready 14.419
And I take note of which tps features are available 0.650
When I write some files expected to persist 1.462
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.305
# 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" 19.564
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.167
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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2:15.993
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 10.969
And the network is plugged 0.053
And Tor is ready 10.607
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.174
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 11.353
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:25.371
And I capture all network traffic 0.011
And the network is plugged 0.064
And Tor is ready 16.655
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.412
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.073
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.245
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.966
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.055
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1:0.968
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 without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 12.942
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.129
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 19.623
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 27.271
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 2.057
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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3:35.453
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 15.181
When I enable persistence 27.883
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 15.391
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 41.984
And I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 31.545
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.158
When I cold reboot the computer 11.846
And the computer reboots Tails 44.835
Given I enable persistence 10.966
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.576
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.915
Then all Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.168
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.661
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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2:59.844
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 13.792
# 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 35.833
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 9.678
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:35.885
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 24.654
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.010
Tags: @product
53.531
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 11.769
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 19.781
Then persistence is disabled 0.175
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 6.402
And all notifications have disappeared 11.331
When I delete the persistent partition 3.612
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.160
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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1:45.344
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 10.526
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.281
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 10.558
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:23.639
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.339
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.049
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.011
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1:3.824
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 11.424
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.073
When I try to enable persistence 1.380
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 20.270
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 14.311
And all notifications have disappeared 10.267
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.415
And all tps features are enabled 2.572
And all tps features but the first one are active 2.107
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.678
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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6:55.717
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 6:6.467
And I enable persistence 32.497
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 13.453
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.715
And persistence is enabled 2.583
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.452
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
31.973
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 10.317
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 20.795
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.859
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.924
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
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42.428
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 11.482
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 12.995
When I enable persistence 15.344
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.072
And persistence is successfully enabled 2.533
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.024
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product
37.243
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 11.505
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.346
When I try to enable persistence 1.379
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 7.305
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.320
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.316
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.558
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.321
Then persistence is successfully enabled 1.189
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.457
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
1:0.193
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 and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 10.358
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.115
When I try to enable persistence 2.527
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 14.558
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.240
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.048
When I log in to a new session 12.931
And all notifications have disappeared 12.303
# 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" 0.350
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.654
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.438
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.559
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.105
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 1.046
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
59.231
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 10.941
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 12.093
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.353
When I try to enable persistence 1.385
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 6.296
When I log in to a new session 13.078
And all notifications have disappeared 11.436
Then the Tor Browser starts 2.513
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 1.132
After features/support/hooks.rb:331 0.911
After features/support/hooks.rb:100 0.000